Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Joe Biden explains his approach for US-China relationship" video.

  1. I am Australian and my understanding as borne out by what is occurring is China is fighting a propaganda war against us claiming all sorts of things, racism to the point the Chinese shouldn't travel to Australia because of the dangers. They made this allegation some time ago but never made such an allegation against the USA as far as I am aware. China wants power and influence over ASEAN countries. The US and European handling of covid 19 has shown those countries to be weak countries incapable of running themselves, so don't actually have to say anything. Some claims by China are ridiculous, for example they claimed that an agreement between Australia and Japan that we would have joint military training exercises on each other's soil was somehow threatening, noting that China is a nuclear power with a 2.5 million strong military versus Australia and Japans combined troop numbers about 500,000. I wonder why they don't complain about Singapore training troops in Australia which has been going on for quite some time. I think privately China hoped Australia and New Zealand would fail in the Covid 19 response so then they could assert that they are superior. China has accused Australia of being a bully, which is quite funny except maybe it gets some traction although my thinking is it would only get traction inside of China because other countries would consider it ridiculous that a country of 25 million could bully a country of 1.4 billion. What the Chinese do is actions to infuriate us. An example is after 20 years not a single issue with quality of coking coal and possibly thermal coal but now all of a sudden they have basically banned Australian coal saying there are quality issues with about 60 ships basically stranded at sea. Analysts say China will now be paying higher costs for lower grades of coal. The only silver lining is that China's competitors would be a little more competitive. I am not certain but I think changing from a trade war against the US to then being buddies with the US with regards to agriculture while simultaneously putting tariffs on Australian produce is probably designed to make us angry with the US. They also know because the information is publically available US farmers do receive subsidies and Australian farmers don't on anywhere near the scale of US farmers. We shall see what happens over the next few months, especially after Biden becomes president the Chinese might back off of Australia. That does depend what Biden does a little bit I think.
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