How Australia Is Crashing the World Economy And Taking Down China

This is the Australian ship called...the topas. In June of 2020 this ship left the port of Queensland in Australia with 90,000 tons of coal as its cargo. Its destination was the port of Jingtang, where it was set to unload its coal, and then travel back to Australia over the course of a few days.
But that's not what happened. Because once the topas reached the port of jingtang, it was not allowed into the Chinese port. So, it waited. One month passed, two months, 6 months, then 10 months. eventually, and the ship, and all its crew found itself being stranded at sea for nearly an entire year, with no end in sight.
And as it turns out, this event would foreshadow one of the biggest economic issues….that we are currently witnessing today.
But to explain why this event was so important, and why its creating a global crisis today...you must know that this crisis that we are currently experiencing... may have actually started with a small bird, just a few decades ago. A bird, that caused one of the biggest crises in history.
This is a Chinese Sparrow. In the 1950s, the chinese government didn’t know much about these birds except for one thing. What they found out was that these sparrows at on average 4 pounds of chinese grain per year, per bird. Now on its surface, this may not seem like much, when you consider that all the sparrows in china consume only a fraction of one percent of the grain in China. But at the time, the Chinese government did not like this at all.
You see, china in the 1950’s was trying its best to adopt communist economic policies, while becoming completely self sufficient in regards to its agriculture. So, in order to accomplish their goal, the banned the privatization of all agricultural production within the country. They also decided that all food shall be collected and then distributed by the government, they changed their farming techniques to match that of the soviet union, they decreased crop diversity to help boost production quotas, and lastly, they stopped trading resources with all western nations, in hopes of becoming self sufficient.
And all of the policy effects took place virtually overnight, which caused a massive shock to China’s agricultural system. And soon, China would begin to experience a decrease in food production, and a very serious national famine.
However, there was one thing that would push this crisis over the edge. And of course that was the sparrow.
Remember how the chinese government didn’t like that the sparrows ate a small amount of their grain? Well...as it turns out, the chinese government decided to order the extermination of all sparrows from the country, in hopes of boosting food production.
And so...over the course of a few years, millions of sparrows in China were killed, and the sparrow became nearly extinct.
And it would not take too long before china realized it had made one of the largest mistakes in the countries history. This one single policy change, ended up making their famine even worse.
You see, what china did not know, was that sparrows were the main predators for all of the pests in their crop fields. Meaning that as soon as the sparrows went away, the crop eating pests, mainly locusts, began swarming the entire country. And these locusts were not eating just a small fraction of one percent of the food. Some swarms literally destroyed entire farms or even villages of crops at a time.
And it was this event that ended up making the Famine in China turn into the Great Chinese Famine. A crisis that caused tens of millions of people to starve to death over a 5 year span.
All it took, was a few policy changes, and one hasty economic decision, to cause a crisis on a global scale…
And that brings us to today.
Remember that ship of the Topas, that we last saw being stranded at sea? Well, as it turns out, this was also because of a hasty economic decision that came from the Chinese government.
You see, in June of 2020, just a few months into the pandemic, Australian Prime Minister called for an investigation into the origin of pandemic in China.
Now this on its surface, may not have seemed like much of a story at the time, but in reality this would be the instigator for a global crisis.
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[@benparker3224]

As an Australian, I laughed when you were talking about Australia while proudly displaying the New Zealand flag 😂

[@do3604]

I was legit just thinking that lol 😂

[@jasonchilds558]

As a Kiwi, I'm proud we've finally taken over Australia. Long live the Kiwi!. lol.

[@rustytoes6341]

​@@jasonchilds558 🤣

[@ALaughingMan]

Australia? You mean the west island of New Zealand?

[@Lycari674]

aye i saw thT too, im also austrlian!

[@grahamleadbeatter5981]

As an Australian, I hope that my country refuses to sell coal to China. We have found new markets for most of our coal, so we don't really need China as much as many would have thought. Also FYI, the flag that you showed at the end is the New Zealand flag. They are similar, but not the same.

[@karlpartridge9546]

The flags are similar because New Zealand and Australia are similar people with similar values governed by two totally different leaders Wish we had your leader than our leader She is too weak and fake Guess what country I am from !!

[@adamharrold407]

@@karlpartridge9546 pardon me, but what are the reasons you have the opinion that jacinda ardern is weak? I do want to broaden my view

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

@@karlpartridge9546 NZ people are more western European descendent today than of British. Unlike Australia is. Not saying that NZ has no British because they do. Although not as much as Australia does. NZ flag was created during a time of similarities when both of the British colonies fought as one under the ANZAC. But that's all history now. NZ and Australia have total different view and values. We nothing alike today. Australia holds more to the old British traditional values that created the nation that we are by holding majority traditions as a value and vastly still keeping the largest ethical population British. As where NZ has seeked to separate themselves and migrated people that succeed it's own population rather than to keep its traditions a values of it's earlier British settlers.

[@Damitsall]

We will see, though it seems like Australia likes treating their citizens like the Chinese; putting them in internment camps. People are so neutered.

[@HarambaeXelonmuskfans]

@@Damitsall China is doing it to fuck with the urghur people, while australia is doing it to kill covid. Did you really think hotels would cut it? Anyways, I’m not here to rattle on about ethics with you or whatever you babble on about but these are two incredibly different situations.

[@jakotae]

China thought they could bring Australia to heel. What they didn't realise is that whilst small compared to China, Australia has quite a backbone. It's something friends of Australia know only too well. Aussies will be the first to put their shoulder to the wheel when helping friends, and enemies have learned the old spirit of the diggers lives on and Australia sticks to it's morals.

[@endermanofficial]

sure buddy, one of the most authoritarian western countries in the world and there's only a couple years at most before another coal driven recession. mark my words. Don't go anywhere because i want to gloat about it when it hits because I know you'll try to palm it off because it's inconvenient

[@dirkdiggler6230]

you call bending over for the US morals?

[@lachlanbelleville1872]

Except when we sell our coal to china and then buy it back at a higher price

[@thepoliticalgunnut8018]

Oh please. You know damn well that old digger spirit left the second we started sucking off both the Americans and the Chinese.

[@trevorhastings7845]

You better believe it. Mate.

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[@CaptainJacksIsland]

It's a time honored tradition as old as the internet to show the New Zealand flag when talking about Australia 🇦🇮

[@huskydogg7536]

didn't NZ change their flag not long ago?

[@shaun6501]

I was looking for this comment.

[@davebowden4010]

@@huskydogg7536 NO WE EFFING DIDN'T !!!!

[@huskydogg7536]

@@davebowden4010 Sorry Dave sounds like a touchy subject. There was a news story in the states a few years ago showing a silver marijuana-like plant flag. So that never happened?

[@davebowden4010]

@@huskydogg7536 No that was an attempted vanity project by a former prime minister. He conned media and almost conned enough kiwis to vote for it. It was an abomination. Never again. The plant leaf was a stylised silver fern leaf.

[@irubadub6389]

Title should be called “Finally someone stood up to china, thanks Australia!”

[@onefifthtoofifthwedfifthbr5371]

I guess you didn’t watch the video, cause that would not be a good title. Smh I’m sad for you bro, you don’t need to lie to get people to like you. Just tell the truth and be truthful and be yourself

[@Obsidianen]

Me: *looks at Lithuania* There are many countries who started to stand up against China nowadays. :D

[@aliciafields-worldtravelle8248]

At what cost, the Australian economy will collapse if they don't trade with China

[@anthonysacco5010]

@@aliciafields-worldtravelle8248 Australia would have a great economy if it didn't charge insane tariffs to the USA.

[@mr.commenter7953]

@Sabotage New world Order better than being slaves of Xi Pingpong

[@Some-guy962]

As an Australian I am pretty confident that china will continue to make these mistakes

[@albertsaffron7582]

Yeah I mean, Australia exports commodities, not specialised products, Coal, Barley and meat if not wanted by China, will be wanted elsewhere, it’s not like Australian produce has a bad reputation!

[@oniichan4909]

As an Australian, I'm confident our govt will continue to just fuck up in general

[@castleanthrax1833]

​@@oniichan4909 While I'm certainly not disagreeing with you, I don't believe Scomo fd up. He was absolutely right to pose the questions he did.

[@DarthWombat]

​@@castleanthrax1833 No, no, Scomo definitely was a fuck up that fucked up.

[@castleanthrax1833]

@@DarthWombat Not on that particular incident he didn't.

[@paulmurray8922]

Heh, China, recently, partially lifted the "unofficial" coal ban and have been approaching Australia for renewed supplies, with mixed results. Apparently some Australian mining companies have already signed long-term deals with other customers and so have little leeway (or desire) in meeting China's needs.

[@GhostSlayer666]

China gave themselves another L 😂😂

[@jako445]

We have our sights on India for trade

[@stevencooper3202]

Only traitors do business with communists

[@Torth121]

Yeah well we dont need them anymore and we have seen what an impact we make on them so fuck em

[@smedleyfarnsworth263]

@@roddiechan Nonsense.

[@colinmunro2632]

You didn't mention that Australian coal is of a much higher grade than Chinese coal. As a result producing electricity with their own coal is not very cost effective.

[@briantayler1230]

G'day mate, that coal from Indonesia is some of the poorest and dirtiest in the world. It is dirtier than Chinese coal.

[@set3777]

@@briantayler1230 China's Coal imports from Australia Plummet 98.6%, but India, S. Korea fill the Gaps Coal export from Australia actually went up. Better not to depend on China

[@bangscutter]

The low quality coal can be used for electricity generation. But the problem is manufacturing that requires high quality coal. Things like steel production require high quality coal, or else the steel quality will be bad.

[@yohaneschristianp]

@@briantayler1230 Sorry to hear that, what source did you get that information from? Surely it is not just "I am from developed country" mentality is it?

[@set3777]

@@bangscutter Only 20% of Metalugical coal exported by AU in 2017 went to China. China used to buy mostly Thermal coal from AU

[@tjp353]

The whole Western World really does need to work extremely hard towards reducing it's reliance on Chinese trade.

[@je6897]

No one can replace china, think

[@atmosdwagon4656]

​@@je6897 Biggest lie said yet; the U.S. was not reliant on China for most of its existence, pre and post-industrialization. The U.S. wasn't reliant on China during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and most of the 1990s. In fact, this whole insane saga of the world becoming reliant on Chinese manufacturing only began after Bill Clinton amended NAFTA to include China as a tariff-free partner, at which point, China started violating their side of the agreement almost immediately and placed heavy tariffs on most U.S. exports. (everything but food and fuel). The bitter irony of those who whine about Trump's "Trade war" don't realize that China had been waging a one-sided trade war with the U.S. for over a quarter century, and our corporate establishment and their minions in our government have been trying to wring the country dry before shipping everything out to China, simply because it gives them totalitarian power and unbreakable monopolism over the bulk of the world's economy. (has nothing to do with Jews, or The Great Reset, or the Kalegergi Plan or Agenda 22 or whatever...it's just good old fashioned human greed run rampant) Thus, the real reason Trump was ousted from power had nothing to do with his alleged ties to Russia, racism, fascism or any of the other boogeyman bullshit our crooked corporate media monoliths alleged for 5 years straight; it was because he was the first and ONLY POTUS since Clinton to actually uphold the terms of NAFTA with China, matching their tariffs and by doing so immediately reversed a decades-old trend of monumental loss. Prior to China poisoning the world with COVID, the economic growth we had under Trump from 2017 through 2019 is (even adjusted for inflation) rivaled only by the Eisenhower boom in the 1950s. And all we had to do to achieve it was stop hobbling ourselves with shitty Keynesian economic policies and starting meaningless, costly wars to fuel the military-industrial-complex. (Trump notably, started no new wars, unlike Obama and Dubbya. But apparently, he's this "fascist dictator madman".)

[@Tenhys]

@@atmosdwagon4656 Not being confrontationnal but i'm legitimately curious to know : can you please provide your sources ?

[@canadiansoviet]

It makes better business to have a reliance on a few countries rather than just one

[@knin1975]

@@atmosdwagon4656 you are so right. Goverment spending on foreign wars instead of infrastructure improvement. Corporations' and Wall Street's greed are more responsible than anyone else. In the end, a common person living in the US is the one that got the worst of it all: higher taxes, but lower decent wages.

[@indian419]

As an Indian we extend what little support we can to Australia, roos are not the one's to mess with whether in cricket or outside of it💪.

[@pnatgrendy]

It's worth mentioning that since the trade war China started with Australia the balance of trade has actually moved more in favour of Australia due to the global shortage on iron ore.

[@podsly]

That's a completely different trade war. China started the bilateral trade with Australia. The trade war going on with China and the US is a different bilateral trade war.

[@jeffgriffith7087]

I seem to recall that "trade wars are easy". Where did I hear that before? Hmmm

[@brendanalfo411]

weird how it showed the new Zealand flag

[@MrMannyhw]

China most likely is sourcing resources from the African and Southeast asian nations. They too smart to depend on 5 eye nations.

[@cheekeongkoo6527]

@@vivienneduong6541 yah they so dumb till reaching world second largest economy scale. wondering what happen if they smart.

[@anthonypatterson2328]

It should be known that Australia's coal is low ash, low Sulphur and high energy and this is particularly so for the metallurgical coal used for steel making. It would be good to see the Australian flag in the video instead of the New Zealand flag.

[@tim1398]

Yes but is it Keto?

[@rparker069]

@@tim1398 it's gluten free too

[@Elhamsba]

That is the Australian flag the New Zealand flag has red stars 🇳🇿

[@normandiebryant6989]

@@Elhamsba No, the flag at 10:28 DOES have red stars :)

[@botleydot]

Dairy-Free, Vegan, organic, low-carb Australian coal

[@andrewwickham4642]

Well Australia doesn’t bend to bullying even from our largest trading partner. Stubbornly after nearly 2 years of shortage’s and inadvertently still buying Australian coal at twice the price through 3rd party countries, China early in 2023 lifted the ban on Australian coal and contacted coal companies to place orders. These previously supplier Mining companies found new companies in Southeast Asian Europe and Japan for Chinas cancelled orders showing poorly thought through retaliation choices have consequences for bully’s

[@dylanbenjaminwalter2896]

Yeah, there might have been a little bit of Donnie in Malcolm's ear and alliance requirements going on there when it kicked off

[@andrewjensen7413]

​@@dylanbenjaminwalter2896 they were trying to get China to say that COVID came out of Wuhan's CDC lab. It should have been called WUHAN 19 not COVID 19. The WHO knows that's where it's came from but China Government still acting like the Old CCP.

[@smedleyfarnsworth263]

Why would those supplies ever trust China again?

[@whoswho7815]

Australia don't bend for anyone, yet they are a lapdog of the U.S🤔🤣🤣🤣

[@smedleyfarnsworth263]

cash up front.

[@TheWetworm]

China's been reliant on Australian Coal for so long alot of their manufacturing/power plants are designes to specifically run on Australian Coal. When they started importing from other nations they realised it didn't work (idk different grade or refinement or something).

[@cbisme6414]

Highly efficient and clean, and yes, their manufacturing plants are built for our coal. Brazil apparently is the only other know to be as clean but they're not producing enough.

[@alexanderdavies4734]

“Refuses to lift ban on Australian coal”, proceeds to show NZ flag.

[@aheat3036]

No one cares! 😂.

[@clancyman2852]

@@aheat3036 Australians do.

[@glennllewellyn7369]

I’m a Aussie New Zealander! Ha Pee Niss!!!

[@glennllewellyn7369]

@@aheat3036 is jealous.

[@markm4106]

They stole the Pavlova recipe too..... Cue ANZAC comment war in 3 2 1...

[@stevestruthers6180]

Moral of the story: never depend on a single country to make all your manufactured goods.

[@shanesekiller]

What happened there you have no choice? How about great negotiations ? You dare to be on your own, being or living alone without other? You have your own choice, right? Make a great choice with other is better than nothing you choose

[@kaitoshinichi]

@shanesekiller What on earth are you trying to say? Makes no sense what so ever. Steve is clearly trying to say it's better to diversify your market, your sources and also don't restrict yourself to just one place

[@jonathanscott8226]

Moral of the story is don't trade with a Communist Command economy, its just a matter of time for bureaucrats that run the government to make a dumb decision.

[@shanesekiller]

@@jonathanscott8226 It is your choice. Better to leave China alone, don't you think? Just leave China alone. They don't welcome you either.

[@shanesekiller]

@@kaitoshinichiare you ok? Did i say something wrong?

[@jonathonwessling541]

The ships should have been re-routed or brought back after a maximum of 1 month... it's ridiculous how the crew of the ships had to stay stranded for soon long.

[@cooked.gaming]

Their superiors don’t care at all, our government doesn’t care at all, and the Australian populace obviously doesn’t care at all or they wouldn’t be there.

[@S.M.E.A.C]

They aren't Australian ships.

[@theconerippa8061]

Very true when I worked in the steel manufacturing and rebar industry in 2020 (Australia) steel was dear and we had to cut most of our workers because of the loss of income the company took because of prices of importing and waiting time from China . Work in a technology company at the moment and we used to China to make our parts and assemble in Mexico . Now we make our parts in India and Taiwan . But we are sceptical about investing in Taiwan because of China . Even the everyday work industry is making you think about war . Shits crazy .

[@uzziya6392]

There is no such thing as "The Port of Queensland" in Australia. There are lots of ports in Queensland, including dedicated coal loading ports, but no Port of Queensland.

[@BeauWhately]

It’d be like saying “The Port of Texas” or “The Port of Canada” lol

[@rachrex]

He also used the New Zealand flag for Australia. Lol

[@CaesarCassius]

This kind of anxiety about "he said The Port of Queensland" and "he showed New Zealand flag for Australia" is not that far away from China's own insecurity and pettiness

[@Classickoolcars]

Port of Brisbane perhaps?? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@_wayward_494]

@@CaesarCassius what? If you make an informal video, please do proper research. Small stuff like that takeaway from your credibility

[@JayYoonSH]

Australia doing all the heavy lifting that every free democracy in the world should be assisting with.

[@sharpshooter_Aus]

Oh we have a lot of support now don’t worry mate.

[@josephmajarucon2674]

Amen! Bless Australia!

[@pritapp788]

Exactly!\. Where is the support from their neighbours and allies? New Zealand's PM is very scared of standing up to Chinese interests. Canada and Germany - well I could say EU in general - are also suspiciously soft on China.

[@sharpshooter_Aus]

@@pritapp788 Well that just shows how un-educated you are on the topic mate. Germany sent their navy to Australia for the first time in 30+ years to show their support for us and joined us on exercises in the South China Sea. Canada has announced their support, New Zealand can’t do much their military is very very very under geared.

[@Happiones]

@@sharpshooter_Aus I wouldn't worry too much about NZ, they play things close to their chests as a political expediency but both sides of the ditch know how things swing when the shit hits the fan. Anywhere you find Aussies you'll find Kiwis.

[@simonw1252]

Keep up the Good fight Aussies, lots of love from Ireland🇮🇪 Just PLEASE be kind to our Cricket Team 😂

[@dianaperry1929]

💖❤️ to Ireland…God ❤ your cricket team …Cheers 💖 🦘🦘🇦🇺

[@pspn0]

Good job Australia💪🏽👍🏽

[@sylviaelse5086]

It would make little sense for Australia to start supplying China again, regardless of what China wants. A country that feels able to turn round at a moment's notice and refuse to accept deliveries that it's already contracted for is more trouble than it's worth.

[@mystikmind2005]

You hit the nail on the head there! It is not good business to try to trade with a nation that has a fickle and unpredictable attitude that repeatedly leads to products getting banned from being imported to punish this or that nation. It represents an untenable business risk. All the business people of the world will be thinking "next time it could be my product" So everyone is going to be wanting to scale down trade with China and scale up plan B which is NOT China, OBVIOUSLY.

[@oliversharpe4645]

Our Country has prospered because of Chinese Exports. All the tariffs have done their damage. But where else would it go?

[@TheSoLuna2]

Agree!!

[@archangel7052]

Like the French submarine deal? Lmao..

[@sylviaelse5086]

@@archangel7052 I think you'll find that the Government was within its contractual rights not to proceed with the contract. It's not as if the completed submarines were sitting outside Sydney harbour barred from entry.

[@user-4m9-dr80h4]

"How Australia Is Crashing the World Economy And Taking Down China." Uh, wasn't it Beijing's decision to NOT allow Aussie ships to dock and offload their cargo?

[@maitlandbezzina2842]

Because our Prime Minister wanted a Covid inquiry into China and was the only leader with enough balls to request it.

[@tinyear926]

Yeah dont give the Sino anglo corporate consultants we call politicians any credit, they are not stupid, they are greedy fthfkrs.

[@atranimecs]

like a Covid or Genocide inquiry would do anything to China. Theyre totalitarian compulsive liars.

[@mjhobo5520]

@@maitlandbezzina2842, nah Scotty is anything but ballsy, it was a brain fart meant to catch headlines for his boss Rupert and distract the punters from whatever his previous fuck up was, he probably didn’t even realise that China was listening. He damn near shat himself when Xi had tanty and pulled up stumps, the only thing that saved him was the market protecting itself and fact that most of the profits from our primary resources never hit an Aussies pocket anyway (thanks to his party actively fighting against Rudd’s resource tax).

[@josephj6521]

@@maitlandbezzina2842 Scott was playing politics. He did it for Trump. Btw, it was Scotty who signed off the 99 year Port of Darwin lease to the Chinese whilst he was treasurer. Hypocrites.

[@jonathan45278]

Australian here and thank you for all the support and nice comments and I know I don't speak for all Aussies but I really hope the tension between Australia and China will end and we can be friends again. We were both great trading partners for decades and mutually benefitted. We used to have great tourism with each other too. Sadly, this is not the case anymore.

[@rogerjamespaul5528]

Yes, also when the Han treat their neighbouring Countries with respect and by demonstrating fairness over the rights of the South China Sea.

[@trueaussie9230]

It's not in the USA's interests for Aus and China to be friendly. Aus is the (unofficial) 51st state of the 'great' (🤭🤭) USA, so we must do what we are told to.

[@cooked.gaming]

@@trueaussie9230 They know they are a failing state, I wish our government knew it too.

[@trueaussie9230]

@@cooked.gaming The WHOLE WORLD knows it. Unfortunately our govts are committed to doing whatever the USA demands. One is moved to wonder why. What secret deals have been chiselled in granite?! Whatever they are, we're not getting the best out of them.

[@chatter4427]

When have we been friends

[@ricksturdevant2901]

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[@brodiegriffin1711]

Australia has found other markets for some of the coal that would normally go to China , so if they lift the ban they won't get the amount they're used to . Same goes for grain & meat , it hurt some Australian businesses quite bad briefly but they have survived , found other markets in Asia with countries that weren't able to get it before..... some Austaralian companies won't sell to Chinese businesses again even if they lift all the bans

[@herbzhou]

Sorry to say, China will not come back to buy Australian. The American replaces every item from Australia, coal, gas, meat, grain, wine, almost everything. The fact is so simple: buying America will help to ease the trade war. Australia survived the Financial Crisis 2008. It attributed it to Labour's "good economic management". They did realize that the 30 years economic growth lined up perfectly with China's growth, where China bought whatever Australian produced. The 2 economies was a nice match. If the Aussie does not appreciate, so be it. Countries are just like people, need mutual respects. Australia has been pulling the cat whiskers for a long time. Australia can be sacrificed in China's dinning table.

[@nipponsuxs]

@@herbzhou wrong Australia is the largest exporter of iron ore and coal, America will never replace Austrslia. Why do you think China still imports huge amounts of Australian iron ore, because no other country can supply as much as China needs

[@stuartmcpherson1921]

@@herbzhou China's growth was due to western influence after some capitalism was introduced. Now the CCP is going backwards their ability to produce quality goods is going down. The population is suffering because of severe restrictions to their lives from a totalitarian regimethat only looks after itself.

[@greghudson9717]

Yay. Lobsters not going to china is great - more for us a xmas time.

[@bradlys4978]

@@herbzhou I am Canadian and think if the world banned imports and exports from and to China it would collapse in a hurry. I 100% think we need to sacrifice for the good of the world and take our losses. create factories and not count on one country. China has become evil and narcissistic. The world has to stop feeding countries with bad intentions.

[@skapunkoialternativeliving6522]

I've said this a million times it's time for countries to stop relying on China's for that Goods we can make our own you don't need China's Goods we can make our own.. it's time for other countries to be more self-sufficient stop depending on China .. and then the problem will be solved..

[@PutXi_Whipped]

Wow, why didn’t we think of that? LMAO

[@derek8564]

You would have to force the big companies here to stop getting things made in China. They won't do it on their own. Which is why you have to boycott as much MADE IN CHINA products whenever possible.

[@skapunkoialternativeliving6522]

@@derek8564 well said my friend I couldn't agree with you more it's the corporations were profiting from this.. instead of the corporation's hiring people in their own countries and pay them good wages it's cheaper to have it made cheap in China which means they double on their profit so they have no motivation to care so by that my friend you are absolutely right..

[@geordiejones5618]

Tell your local corporation. Its up to THEM who drove those jobs out of so many countries bc at the time it was just cheaper.

[@notathome13]

Blame your political scumbags who signed Lima agreement in the 70s which kicked off moving industry into Asia. To move manufacturing out of China will be a 20 year operation, you will need to move all downstream feeder industries out as well.

[@preuermensch3692]

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[@Dannykay331]

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[@MinutesWithMates]

The Australian Port from which it left was the Port of Gladstone, not the Port of Queensland. Queensland is a state with numerous ports along its coast, one of which is the mining port at the city of Gladstone, 513km (319 miles) north of the Queensland state capital, Brisbane. So, to restart your video… it left from the Australian Port of Gladstone.

[@farqew2]

Close but the Topas was berthed and loaded at the Port of Hay Point, Mackay.

[@FaceTheNorthStar]

I believe he said "port off Queensland" which is technically correct

[@BonezyBoy]

Americans 💀

[@CaesarCassius]

This kind of anxiety about "he said The Port of Queensland" and "he showed New Zealand flag for Australia" is not that far away from China's own insecurity and pettiness

[@johnthomas2970]

@@CaesarCassius it’s not about being petty. It’s a bigger reflection on the level or research and QA that was done on this video

[@Omni-Everesacator]

Here in Aus we have a debt interest of 60 million AUD per day, from a debt exceeding 980 billion. everyone's cutting back and no one can afford a house anymore. Inflation is literally making people set fire to their businesses for insurance money. Inflation continues to rise through the roof, $1.98 for a can of beans at the local IGA, even the manager complained about not being able to afford maintenance on a leaky roof. people are really suffering out here.

[@bigkev19]

I reckon we should lift the price of coal to China. Enough to cover the extra cost of being stuck and not being unable to unload the coal. That plus a 15% lift on price.

[@alansmith2203]

Lots of great comments and great article Jack. My wife is born and raised in Beijing. She worked for a coal company. Nothing was mentioned in your article about how poor in quality the remaining chinese coal is. They have already depleted their good quality coal. Much of the top rated coal that is imported is used for processes that require cleaner and more energy dense coal. It is another leg of the stool that has become very lose as they have lost their quality reserves...they are literally tapped out.

[@qianggong1696]

S******t

[@snakeslife-uroborodjinn790]

And that's surprising to the average person too, considering you'd expect a country as large as China to be full of it.

[@mattd624]

How convenient that they could get oil from Russia for dirt cheap. 🤨 It’s as if Putin saw this as an opportunity to work around sanctions. But can China retool its infrastructure over to using oil for energy? Seems very costly. How pride comes before a fall! We should all take a lesson from history.

[@sofascialistadankulamegado1781]

@@mattd624 you can’t use oil to fire furnaces for steel manufacturing nor power stations. You need a special form of coal called “coking coal” to smelt iron ore into steel. China will need to source steel from somewhere else more than it will need coal for energy. Most of the coal they use for energy is their own poor quality coal.

[@elfillari]

Alan, do the chinese women have tighten twinkles than western women?

[@stephenbrowne3399]

You forgot that a major problem was that many Chinese industries were built to suit the high calorific content of Australian coal and the alternate supplies weren't of sufficient quality.

[@wotizit]

Let's gooo

[@marindancirco6498]

Tumultuous History over too many centuries, despite Human Evolution with latest KNOW-HOW-TECH we are well behind to understand what CONSTITUTE SOVEREIGNTY. Human Evolution with latest KNOW-HOW-TECH we develop even further and promote : SPECULATIVE INDUSTRY/ECONOMY and still thinking the old way, SUSTAINABILITY becoming more and more SELECTIVE and shrinking very fast. Protecting Mums/Dads & the rest of families, young's / old & wars veterans it is part of SOVEREIGNTY yet to be enforce . Protecting animals/plants and the rest it is part of SOVEREIGNTY. Protecting Sustainable Ind-Economy and what comes with it, the education not BRINE-WASH, it is part of SOVEREIGNTY. "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come," he promised in a speech reprinted on thousands of election pamphlets. The hairline immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, who suggested that 350 migrants who died last month when their vessel sank on the way to Australia from Indonesia were responsible for their fate, has become an improbable campaign hero, attracting large crowds wherever he travels. According to commentators, Mr Howard's policy of barring migrants and taking them to impoverished Pacific island states to assess their refugee status, including Nauru and Papua New Guinea, has won over many of the 1m voters, predominantly rural, who backed the rightwing One Nation party of Pauline Hanson in the 1998 election. Commentators have called Mr Howard's strategy "dog whistle politics" - sending messages to a blue-collar audience that he hopes are too high-pitched to be heard by other voters. PROMISE THAT TURNED FOR MANY YEARS TO COME INTO : MAS EXODUS EVER as a result of SPECULATIVE INDUSTRIES/ECONOMY; and Brine-Wash Education with all the consequences : Crime Out of Control. MONOPOLISING HUMAN RIGHTS = CRIME-AGAINST HUMANITY/GENOCIDE Protecting any country that promote/support and enforce HUMAN-BEING RIGHTS in effort to evolve and turn it in-to MODEL COUNTRIES/SOCIETIES. NATO, FALLACY / FAILURE to do just that enhance more skepticism/delusional future. Here in Australia more an more of us are loosing life-hood just because PROTECTION it is out of reach: COST TOO MUCH V versus SAVING LIFE. More the ever we here need NATO’s commune sense and logic reflections of the same NATO V NATO, FALLACY / FAILURE by Danny Marin Circo [e-mail] 19022022

[@helraiserlastdaysofhell1795]

Yeah now australia has highest level of global warmkng crisis like forest fires, floods, land errosion with all this coal minng. Good job. Thats so delutional to call it delicious😅😅😅😅

[@braidend4379]

@@helraiserlastdaysofhell1795 Yeah thats why we have fires. Even though our bush has literally adapted to require bush fires to reproduce trees over 1000s of years.

[@truthseeker9688]

And, yet, you don't hear UN and all the Global warming cabal screaming about China's carbon emissions...OH, NOOOOOO...it's all the fault of the West. UhHuh.

[@atlantis8687]

Jack :Australia Me (Australian): What is this???

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[@Clavers1369]

A major mistake from the second sentence: Queensland is not a "port;" it is a state more than double the size of Texas.

[@michaelbeattie4578]

Never mind that these ore ships are not Australian at all. The coal might be Australian but the ships are not.Even the crews on these ships come from Malaysia or Phillipines. The ships probably loaded from Gladstone

[@norsefire0110]

They also showed the NZ flag when talking about Auz

[@liberalcynic]

Coal and LNG is shipped from Queensland. Iron ore from WA.

[@liberalcynic]

I could be a pedant also - coal is carbon and cannot be used to make metals since alchemy isn’t a thing. Sure there are alloys like steel which is the metal iron and carbon but carbon cannot make a metal. So many small errors that undermine the content.

[@onarandomnote25]

@@norsefire0110 I came here just to say that too 😂

[@MultiChuckleberry]

It is an assumption that if China starts to order Australian coal again, that companies in Australia will supply it. China is a BAD CUSTOMER. Those ships stranded for months cost a fortune in lost shipping fees AND humanitarian disaster. China has proved to be a capricious and unreliable customer. Australia has found other more reliable customers for its coal. If new contracts are struck with China it will be at inflated cost, to off-set the Risk of being a supplier to a BAD CUSTOMER.

[@garyradley5694]

Coal is sold at the port in Australia. Any costs after that are on the Chinese importer. Works just like a petrol station. Ship pulls in, fills with coal, pays for the coal, then leaves.

[@demarcolambert2291]

Very smart take dude!!!

[@mv55555]

Agree … China as a nation has lost credibility. If China wants to buy our goods and commodities, it needs to be payment in full before shipping, with shipping charges paid by China.

[@youngz13o]

If you shopped at my store and all I did was insult you and made you my enemy…. Then you stopped coming….. would you consider yourself a bad customer? Cause that’s what your saying. Makes zero sense. You must be dense

[@anthonyreed480]

@@youngz13o If the customer constantly insulted me, sneezed in my face, and then I said "I think you passed on your illness..." and then they said "shut up or I will smash you." I think I'd want new customers.

[@Knightcommander69]

It was great when China stopped buying all of our seafood, beef and wine. The prices were slashed in Australia, and we got access to our own food again.

[@gcr6420]

great work bro

[@mattanderson6672]

God bless Australia From Norway. !! We stand with you against China

[@rodives8844]

Get over it all you half Witt's the Australian economy is suffering big time with our so called allies stabbing Australia in the back. China and NZ are buying Indonesian coal now and Also USA coal. With friends like these.!!!

[@edwardgilmour9013]

And Australia Appreciates the hike in Coal prices too; thanks!

[@davidkemp3154]

Australia is showing Gods strength by expanding democracy before markets. Bringing justice to China is a long road for democracy & Aussies are powerful! RIP Olivia Newton John & Gibb bros.

[@traviscue2099]

Don't let him fool you, Australia is very much in Chinese pockets. If Australia stopped trading with China our economy would crash overnight.. Let alone the amount of property/land China owns here. We've sold almost every single port to China. The Port in Melbourne is Chinese owned now.

[@nestorportuguez8964]

Australia please go for it. What you are doing is good for the whole world.. specially Philippines.

[@stargirl1613]

When you said it started with a little Sparrow... I immediately thought of Jack Sparrow lol

[@ronjohnson1658]

What about coking coal which is not used for electricity?

[@TheHolyCheese75]

As an Australian I believe we must turn our backs on the highly sensitive and irrational CCP. There are many other nations who would make excellent trade partners. Eventually moving away from a commodity based economy would also be a smart idea. At least not purely commodity based. Manufacturing can be sourced elsewhere

[@WayneLyons]

Or, we could return to manufacturing for ourselves. If advanced economies like Germany and Italy can do it, so can we. The key is focus on manufacturing high-quality high-tech products that sell at prices that reflect the higher wages required.

[@TheFykle]

Its just yet another example of what Australia has always suffered from = foresight ! We really are a foolish thickheaded lot 🙄

[@josephfreeman3816]

Well.. I think you rd correct. The US made a serious mistake nby getting China into the WTO giving them MFNstatus then letting its corporations transfer production of damn near everything to China. Australia has excellent coal. And iron ore. I don't know about bauxite. I don't suppose it would be difficult to import bauxite however. As it happens manufacturing of aluminium and steel is energy intensive. But Australia has plenty of coal. With capital a l investment there would seem to be no particular reason why Australia could not produce substantial amounts of aluminium and steel.for value added export. I believe Australia also has local access to high quality sand as well which of course allows them along with coal to make glass. As it happens Steelcase iron aluminium and glass constitute the majority by weight of cars. About 90 percent as I recall. And you guys manufacture cars. And military vehicles. And ships.And planes. And the Japanese with whom you get along manufacture a whole lot of cars and import ...steel and aluminium to do it . Hummm... Someone ought to think about this a bit.

[@kazdean]

@@josephfreeman3816 what do you think the quad is for? Australian resources, Indian labour, US/Japanese investment and tech

[@Shilo-fc3xm]

Further, we should have done it thirty years ago before we, along with the rest of the west lifted them out of poverty and 3rd world obscurity. All those aircraft carriers and mobile missile batteries? Who paid for them? We did. Oddly, even simple working class people have been aware of this since the fifties but our governments just kept underwriting their economy by trading our dollars and pounds their shitty, inferior products. Maddness. And here we are today.

[@DeeJay2715]

It's so important to hear an honest appraisal of the worlds supply issues rather than the usual blame game or political point scoring we keep getting fed from the MSM. Great video. 👍

[@minifalda6611]

Honest maybe but it's not correct. It's not even logical.

[@TheMntnG]

there’s nothing not reported correctly on this in european state media. your statement is rabble-rousing bullshit

[@simonpetrikov3992]

@@TheMntnG if the blame game and useless point scoring exercises true then who cares of It's rabble-rousing if it's the truth Note: i do say if and also I am not sure how serious i take the concept of "information hazard"

[@GameOverAus]

Maybe the shipping should've rang ahead to ensure they were allowed to offload and why were they waiting for months offshore, i work in the wine industry in Sth Australia and Chinese tarrifs on wine also has affected our exports

[@keithleder8971]

I saw this video a year after you put it out.....and now i see the consequences of China's decision. People are freezing. I feel for my brothers and sisters in China. I pray that God will provide for you and keep you warm. Shalom!

[@arewealone9969]

You must be talking out of your ass because China is doing fine.

[@supernovaaust]

Australia has found different markets for the coal so if China wants some they have to pay a higher price.

[@halflife2fun]

higher price for making the ships sit for a year, otherwise known as an asshole tax

[@supernovaaust]

@spade 1 True. We will vote him out. He is a moron. No doubt about it.

[@boardriderz]

@spade 1 Hahaha, classic Chinese arrogance over their own poor decision making and bully tactics. We could ship off coal and iron ore shipments and send China back to the dark ages if we wanted. We will now find other buyers for our products and reduce our reliance on China.

[@2partiesnotpreferred226]

This has hurt our other exports though. Coal is just one of the things we send to china. Selling coal only benefits the big corporations involved.

[@mrlomrlo7353]

like the flea market

[@chambersbenjo]

Australian Here We have learned a valuable lesson from this and as a result the Australian economy will be far more resilient to CCP tantrums. I say CCP as I have no issue with the Chinese people and wish them all the best and a return to good fortune.

[@TheSolidsnake2001]

The lesson that should be learned is: Do not bite the hand that feeds you! And scotty mo has a big mouth.

[@linmal2242]

@@TheSolidsnake2001 He was just stating the facts.! And the facts are that China is under a totalitarian dictatorship of first Mao Tse Tung and now Xi Poo Bear !

[@talllll.ll.1712]

❤️

[@thecelt4807]

how about all the filth you helped vote in when in the beginning they were and still are willing to sell out your country for deals to china ..land.... ports.... etc etc .... now you think think the very same elk have your best interests at heart ? ... no offense but the nativity of the populous is painful to observe .. f@#k governments and all politicians they care for their family's and dont care at all for yours or mine

[@dennisdonovan2735]

@@thecelt4807 well said

[@waltermorris5786]

Jack, after hearing your plea to sub...I subbed.thoroughly enjoyed the video

[@waltervetri2476]

Very interesting and well put.

[@darrenhumphris7522]

Coal from Australia found its way flowing into China under a different flag, ships were filled 80 to 95% of Australian coal then would port for a top up from another country before finally unloading in China. The Aussies are pretty smart, I’m sure the Chinese coal buyers were happy with that.

[@BringerOfD]

should've just cut them off.

[@rarminqorset3628]

@@BringerOfD it's complicated. They cannot cut it when they have hundreds of tons of coal on their cargo skip

[@zhouwu]

@@waltervelasquez3980 Depends. Against whom do you aim? Against the CCP? Or against the common people of China? Perhaps try being more precise with your aim so as to minimise the collateral damage...

[@rafadrobka3691]

Well I really like Australia but I don't think Aussies are proud of people like you. So selfish. China is not just a flag or a politics. There are millions of peoples. And you said that Australia's smartness? China government is also smart enough to find different ways to NOT be depended on one country.

[@darrenhumphris7522]

China would not be buying our coal if they didn’t need it, they rely on it.

[@aethismisbest890]

Long Live Australia Lots and lots of Love and respect from India to Australia❤️🇮🇳 Finally one nation stood up against communist government.

[@daniellarson3068]

India has been doing it too! World's largest Democracy!

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

@Aethis... : India stands up to the CCP.

[@uniqueproperties6667]

yes how childess are they just one small statement let's stand up for free speech India/Australia togehter :)

[@Happiones]

It's all good India. You may still have been under British control last world war but like another world power democracy you gained your independence and kept that gift from the English (and I'm talking about democratic government not the game of cricket). Your people also fought valiantly against the oppressor Japan (who have since learned better) with the English, realising that even though the English were exploitive, they were not inherently evil like the Japanese were at the time. Yes, the west does get complacent at times but when we do get our act together and get going the result is, if nothing else, horrendous for everyone involved, we are able to take it and we will dish it out. Just ask Germans and Japanese of previous generations.

[@indiancowpissdrinker7151]

Superpoo er 2020

[@clodolcmidnights837]

GOD BLESS AUSTRALIA!

[@lunafringe10]

I was in WA in several locations. Mt Newman, Dampier, Karratha, Tom Price, Telfer, Goldsworthy. Catering Business. But there it was all about Iron Ore. I never would have thought that Coal would get so important there. But Coal is from Queensland. And Exports were mostly to Japan in those days. Anyway, it experienced levels of high temperatures I wouldn’t have dreamed of before. 33 degrees heat at night and over 40 in the daytime. We even played football then. 😂😂😂.

[@philipaldrick5363]

Well, now that other nations have found the value of Australian coal, instead of Chinese coal, Australia doesn't need to send so much coal to China now. I also hope that if Japan goes ahead with the plan to take China on, even without American support if necessary, that Australia will stop sending any coal to China at all. We really don't need to anyway. China showed us that.

[@marindancirco6498]

Tumultuous History over too many centuries, despite Human Evolution with latest KNOW-HOW-TECH we are well behind to understand what CONSTITUTE SOVEREIGNTY. Human Evolution with latest KNOW-HOW-TECH we develop even further and promote : SPECULATIVE INDUSTRY/ECONOMY and still thinking the old way, SUSTAINABILITY becoming more and more SELECTIVE and shrinking very fast. Protecting Mums/Dads & the rest of families, young's / old & wars veterans it is part of SOVEREIGNTY yet to be enforce . Protecting animals/plants and the rest it is part of SOVEREIGNTY. Protecting Sustainable Ind-Economy and what comes with it, the education not BRINE-WASH, it is part of SOVEREIGNTY. "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come," he promised in a speech reprinted on thousands of election pamphlets. The hairline immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, who suggested that 350 migrants who died last month when their vessel sank on the way to Australia from Indonesia were responsible for their fate, has become an improbable campaign hero, attracting large crowds wherever he travels. According to commentators, Mr Howard's policy of barring migrants and taking them to impoverished Pacific island states to assess their refugee status, including Nauru and Papua New Guinea, has won over many of the 1m voters, predominantly rural, who backed the rightwing One Nation party of Pauline Hanson in the 1998 election. Commentators have called Mr Howard's strategy "dog whistle politics" - sending messages to a blue-collar audience that he hopes are too high-pitched to be heard by other voters. PROMISE THAT TURNED FOR MANY YEARS TO COME INTO : MAS EXODUS EVER as a result of SPECULATIVE INDUSTRIES/ECONOMY; and Brine-Wash Education with all the consequences : Crime Out of Control. MONOPOLISING HUMAN RIGHTS = CRIME-AGAINST HUMANITY/GENOCIDE Protecting any country that promote/support and enforce HUMAN-BEING RIGHTS in effort to evolve and turn it in-to MODEL COUNTRIES/SOCIETIES. NATO, FALLACY / FAILURE to do just that enhance more skepticism/delusional future. Here in Australia more an more of us are loosing life-hood just because PROTECTION it is out of reach: COST TOO MUCH V versus SAVING LIFE. More the ever we here need NATO’s commune sense and logic reflections of the same NATO V NATO, FALLACY / FAILURE by Danny Marin Circo [e-mail] 19022022

[@ziplokk1453]

Hell, China was probably reselling your coal

[@ksmith733]

Love the New Zealand flag fluttering away hahaha from 10:27 to 10:35 Aussies would love that! Otherwise nice content man.

[@insectbite1714]

People from Australias are sensitive snowflakes and their job is to give good KZbin videos more 👎s

[@ksmith733]

​@@insectbite1714 I take it you're from China hahaha.

[@TarriPup]

Just a foreshadow of things to come when Australia becomes part of New Zealand :3

[@thedamnedatheist]

It's good for a laugh. Like "the port of Queensland".

[@thedamnedatheist]

@@insectbite1714 * Australia, there is only one. And real smart comment on a video about a Xi tantrum damaging the Chinese economy. Yeah the snowflakes are obvious...

[@wasupdoc1738]

"Chyna, knee-jerk reaction?" China: "Yes please"

[@user-ul8ny7qg3s]

Ok , jack and thank you very much!

[@hatac]

There were several other precursor events that drove this at the Australian end. China failed to pay for several ship loads of grain back in the early 2000's. The pro china Australian PM Kevin Rudd failed to pursue the debt and 'wrote it off'. The farmers took the loss. Australian companies started looking for other markets. Australia's trade with China was brokered though several Hong Kong corporations and law firms. When China annexed Hong Kong it voided all those contracts. Many of those Hong Kong companies, with Australian support, evacuated to Australia taking all their staff, family, pets, the neighbors, etc. China was very angry at Australia for that loss of capital and expertise. China also tried to infiltrate the two major political parties in Australia's parliament at the administration level. This failed with the Chinese Agents being caught. All this was known but obscure when Covid blew up in November 2019. China also used the Covid crisis to declare void several long term coal and iron ore trade contracts but Australian companies were already looking for a way out of those contracts and were looking at other trade partners; India, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Saudis and Tanzania. Scott Morrison's quite mild words were the last straw in China and signaled to Aussy industry that we had found those new partners.

[@andre_resin2208]

This actually explains it, better than the vid

[@tomtech1537]

While I don't think China has forgotten the slights of the past, K Rudd was in office 2008~2013 with a very strong pivot to China economically, I would say most of the 'justification' is since then, which has almost been a shadow economic war. Things that come to mind since Rudd left office (noting the child-like nature of the CCP means they cannot tolerate the smallest slight, which only gets worse as pushed further by characters such as Trump); - China drying up foreign investment (a lot of which was flowing into Aus + NZ) - The crashing of Iron ore prices - Australian comments on HK protests - Australian comments on Uyghurs and general humanitarian issues in China - Australian questions about Chinese investment into places like Fiji - China sending warnings not to blame them for covid - Australia encouraging investigation into Covid (as you say; wish NZ grew a spine) - Huawei ban There's a general sentiment that China is the enemy probably mostly due our closeness to US as far as military goes (not that China does anything to help), which is stoked by the current (Hawkish Liberal Party government) including comments today by the questionably racist Foreign Minister (Peter Dutton) are the Chinese destroyer off our coast. This is regularly stoked with comments around Chinese Investments into the belt and road debt trap, port of Darwin, Rural Cattle Farms, and Chinese housing buyers that I have no doubt that almost all Australians will have had at least one conversation about (for a people that claims to be apolitical).

[@hatac]

@@tomtech1537 Good points, I am a liberal and they are a little less hawkish than I am. A good 80% of the Chinese housing buyers are people getting their money out of China. They are willing to take a small loss here rather than a total loss in China. Its also about having somewhere to go when they must leave. Interestingly they did not trust Obama so, like North Koreans, both avoided the USA while he was President.

[@tomtech1537]

@@hatac not sure if that is a nod to the societally acceptable racism (particularly within MLC), but I don't think that they would have a more positive view of Trump/Biden than Obama? I would have assumed that it was more to do with how easily they could purchase property/or migrate. AUCANZ have been less competitive on immigration than the US if I understand it.

[@brucescott7016]

China was also seriously pissed when Australia passed anti-interference laws limiting the ability of Chinese (and to be fair, all foreign nation) backed interests pouring cash into pockets to garner favours and special treatment. Banning Hauwei from national networks didn't amuse them much either.

[@XxBloggs]

And another final result of this is Australia’s decision to buy a large fleet of nuclear submarines as a key offensive weapon against China. Australia was never a country that wanted a strong offensive capability. Now China has changed that. Imagine the irony if one of those subs sunk the Chinese aircraft carrier… that is made from Australian iron ore.

[@jasonw1575]

these subs are only gonna be combat ready in like the 2040s? seems logical to believe that the chinese navy will not continue developing in the meanwhile xd

[@1arritechno]

@@jasonw1575 : 2040's - Wrong. Within a decade is the latest from UK & USA. In closer years, both the UK and USA are going to base some military technology including destroyers & submarines. So, Australian Crew will be sharing operations on Nuclear Subs within a few years as it is in the interest of USA & UK to bring Australia up to speed , given the growing threat in Sth China Sea.

[@marindancirco6498]

Tumultuous History over too many centuries, despite Human Evolution with latest KNOW-HOW-TECH we are well behind to understand what CONSTITUTE SOVEREIGNTY. Human Evolution with latest KNOW-HOW-TECH we develop even further and promote : SPECULATIVE INDUSTRY/ECONOMY and still thinking the old way, SUSTAINABILITY becoming more and more SELECTIVE and shrinking very fast. Protecting Mums/Dads & the rest of families, young's / old & wars veterans it is part of SOVEREIGNTY yet to be enforce . Protecting animals/plants and the rest it is part of SOVEREIGNTY. Protecting Sustainable Ind-Economy and what comes with it, the education not BRINE-WASH, it is part of SOVEREIGNTY. "We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come," he promised in a speech reprinted on thousands of election pamphlets. The hairline immigration minister, Philip Ruddock, who suggested that 350 migrants who died last month when their vessel sank on the way to Australia from Indonesia were responsible for their fate, has become an improbable campaign hero, attracting large crowds wherever he travels. According to commentators, Mr Howard's policy of barring migrants and taking them to impoverished Pacific island states to assess their refugee status, including Nauru and Papua New Guinea, has won over many of the 1m voters, predominantly rural, who backed the rightwing One Nation party of Pauline Hanson in the 1998 election. Commentators have called Mr Howard's strategy "dog whistle politics" - sending messages to a blue-collar audience that he hopes are too high-pitched to be heard by other voters. PROMISE THAT TURNED FOR MANY YEARS TO COME INTO : MAS EXODUS EVER as a result of SPECULATIVE INDUSTRIES/ECONOMY; and Brine-Wash Education with all the consequences : Crime Out of Control. MONOPOLISING HUMAN RIGHTS = CRIME-AGAINST HUMANITY/GENOCIDE Protecting any country that promote/support and enforce HUMAN-BEING RIGHTS in effort to evolve and turn it in-to MODEL COUNTRIES/SOCIETIES. NATO, FALLACY / FAILURE to do just that enhance more skepticism/delusional future. Here in Australia more an more of us are loosing life-hood just because PROTECTION it is out of reach: COST TOO MUCH V versus SAVING LIFE. More the ever we here need NATO’s commune sense and logic reflections of the same NATO V NATO, FALLACY / FAILURE by Danny Marin Circo [e-mail] 19022022

[@tomtech1537]

@@jasonw1575 ironically China won't be a threat in the time horizon xD

[@oliveweir8508]

Get real-War is not an option for Australia. Australia is not a World Power. China is. And what do the people want? War-No.

[@DavythS]

Interesting video. Just noticed one error - at about 10 and a half minutes, the flag you show is for New Zealand (not Australia). :-)

[@davidlister5642]

This is where being cheap will cost you dearly.

[@SanjayKumar-kp8cf]

Australia is a great nation wìsh that it rises in abundance in wealth and all prosperity 🙌

[@cameronmilne5319]

Correction.....was a great nation! It is currently and has been for the last 20 years doing it's best to destroy everything possible that made it such a wonderful place to grow up, live and prosper in. Going green will cost Australia more than other countries as well due to our high reliance on fossil fuel commodity exports to balance the budget!

[@williamarmstrong8337]

We export all our IP and huge amounts of our tertiary education system. We're stunted without immigration.

[@DarthWombat]

Our wealth and prosperity gets sold off to foreign nations so a few politicians can pocket a fucking fraction of what our resources are worth.

[@bilbonob548]

@@cameronmilne5319 Yes, because relying on the most thermodynamically inefficient and dirty energy source is a great future-proof strategy. Australia is a country of morons sitting on a landmass rich with extremely important resources, it wasn't due to any particularly adept competencies that has allowed us to prosper - just geography. We could absolutely be leading the way in areas that matter if we were actually intelligent, but we aren't, so we continue to double down on whatever gives us immediate profit. We literally have some of the biggest reserves of lithium and uranium and various other rare-earth metals, yet we export it all because we're too dumb to properly refine and export at a higher price.

[@trueaussie9230]

If our govts stop selling off our precious resources at bargain basement prices and buying them back as (poor quality) processed items, we will do VERY well. Eg - as recently the 1950s & 60s Australian made steel was recognised as some of the best in the world. Now we export coal and iron ore, at bargain basement prices, and buy back poor quality Chinese steel. We need to bring back manufacturing and stop relying on imports. But that will require a drastic re-think for the labour force to be competitively priced.

[@bigboy9983]

It’s worth noting that the Australian government made an extra 50 billion dollars during covid from iron royalties.

[@jegga9199]

It's worth noting he showed the New Zealand flag and said nothing about it

[@pace1869]

China already started buying coal from russia in half price

[@ashdog236]

@@pace1869 and it’s terrible coal and China is suffering mass blackouts, people freezing and starving to death so that cheap Russian coal didn’t go so well did it

[@MaonNZ]

@@pace1869 not half the price and also it 3x as costly to transport.

[@ishure8849]

G'day P ace, I think the main problem is that the PRC has spent $$$ developing their coal fired plants to run only on the Australian coal and the other muddy stuff that comes from the younger continents is useless .

[@retired3437]

As an Australian I am flattered that we could be that important,REALLY!!!

[@ImmortalInflames]

10:30 oh.. hey New Zealand! Didn't realise you were in the mix up too!😅 (Red Stars = NZ)

[@aaronwilcox6417]

There's no coal crisis in China. Its neighbor Mongolia has developing and operating coal mines and plenty of reserves. China doesn't need Australia for coal. It's easier to import from thier rail lines from the north frontier in Mongolia.

[@joebloggs6131]

Untrue - Mongolian coal lacks the quality which the Chinese smelters were designed for - meaning that no matter how much poor quality mongolian coal you pour in, you won't achieve temperature necessary, burns rough and creates pollution. Australian coal has vast quantities of high quality black coal suitable for combustion, burns cleaner and hotter.

[@aaronwilcox6417]

@@joebloggs6131 Very true. The Mongolian coal production is basically for electricity production. The higher grade so called "super coal" can be sourced via the Lippo Group production Indonesia. Great job on the distinction of coal grade. Most haven't a thought or clue on such matters.

[@antonydi]

"The Port of Queensland", Queensland is an area bigger than Texas.

[@rosierose3257]

Australia is 2 & 1/2 times bigger than Texas

[@caseyjones7235]

@@rosierose3257 it's actually around 13 lol

[@rosierose3257]

@@caseyjones7235 Casey, you are right. Thankyou for pointing this out. When I reread my comment I noticed that I had made a huge mistake and wrote Australia instead of Queensland. It is Queensland that is 2 & 1/2 times bigger than Texas. Thanks.

[@caseyjones7235]

@@rosierose3257 that's alright i though that you might have meant to write that

[@caseyjones7235]

@@rosierose3257 Australia is very vast and Barron! Also people always talk about Queensland compared to Texas when Western Australia is double the size of Queensland..

[@um...thinking...hold-on]

I just want to mention , in this video at 10 minutes and 28 seconds as you mention Australia, you show a sample video of the New Zealand flag. Other than that I enjoyed the doco and it was well done

[@pandamanjoe9664]

Does nobody hear the emphasis on the Ch sound everytime

[@geo3219]

My lesson here is, don't let a commie talk you into killing all your sparrows.

[@derek8564]

and don't talk to a commie period :)

[@jaymarx]

@@derek8564 only talk within our echo chambers period :)

[@RemusKingOfRome]

no, the sparrows were capitalists so had to go ..

[@clivedoe9674]

@@jaymarx Death is a preferable alternative to communism. ~ LP

[@mikefawkes5195]

hahhahha thanks wont lol

[@Berkana]

China's biggest weakness isn't just energy consumption and irrational hasty economic decisions. Those hasty decisions come from China being incredibly thin-skinned. That is China's real weakness. A bit of humility and patience with other nations would really help, but China seems to have a humility deficit right now. China seems to have no regional allies other than North Korea. It has border disputes with all of its neighbors (except NK), and would do better for itself not to behave like it has been behaving.

[@civicblade1]

You don't have the facts. China has 14 neighbours that it shares land borders with and there are territorial land border disputes with only 3 of them. Namely, India, Bhutan and Nepal. Since War World 2, China has had territorial land disputes with most of its land borders. Through patience and humility, China managed to resolved most of them leaving just 3 disputes and with the dispute with Bhutan drawing to a close. In all of the resolved disputes, China ceded more land than the counterparty in order to reach amicable solutions.

[@Berkana]

@@civicblade1 you're forgetting all the disputes in the South China Sea. I'm not just talking about land based territorial disputes.

[@alamatrix488]

@@civicblade1 what did Tibet do wrong? Why them?

[@Countcho]

@@civicblade1 your answer is inaccurate.

[@weaksupremacy3799]

@@Berkana China has territorial disputes with North Korea too. They never went too much though. Chinese call north korea as South China. LoL

[@ranjitbalu-singh5345]

Who knew? -- Great video!

[@superbat6965]

"It's conga time in Aus!" -Several Aussies, me included.

[@gregoryhattenfels7864]

Lived in Queensland for 20 years , love to know where the port of Queensland is as the state is only 1.853 million square km.

[@GuitarDudeSean]

It shocks me that a nation of billions of people can just destroy the oceans and piss all over the world and democracy and we all just keep letting them do it

[@shopshop144]

How did China acquire their recent wealth, from the west. The rich decided they did not care for the middle class and moved manufacturing to China. You need to realize that things like freedom and care for mother nature generally do not matter to the 1%. Power is their game

[@jolan2164]

China is not to blame here imo. They’re just in it for the money, but who is requesting cheap and fast manufacturing? Us, the western countries, and in order to have that quality of life we decided to give up on our only home. Western countries are to change there policies if we want to save the world. If there is no demand of cheap products, china will stop making it.

[@MitraxTrading]

@@jolan2164 Yep .. we ship our raw resources using heavy fuel oil to China who use cheap dirty energy and a cheap workforce to produce things like solar panels and then ship them back to us so we can feel good about ourselves. Then we criticise China about its environmental policies.

[@jolan2164]

@@MitraxTrading exactly!

[@demetrijanaz1803]

@@jolan2164 So if I paid you to go kill someone, it’s not your fault? lol. That is called deflection.

[@micka4697]

How the hell did you come up with that headlining?

[@OZSCQUADS]

Why New Zealand flag at 10:28? Was it meant to be Australian flag?

[@EranHertz]

It's not because of the question, it's because they know what real investigation will find and are willing to do anything, not reveal the truth. This over-response tells you everything you need to know.

[@scossiechick]

Um, I’m sorry - but the ‘couple of sentences’ from the Aus PM that you attributed for the start of this is slightly incorrect. It was the Aus government, however it was mostly about the the investigation into how the CCP were buying land/ property / businesses in Aus with Laundered money through Aus casinos. They also started investigating alleged CCP spies who were living in Aus and pressuring Chinese immigrants and descendants into spying for the CCP. They actually detained (I believe) some people to then send back, then China retaliated by seizing Journalists and accusing them of spying. Aus PM said ‘some sentences’ - different ones, which then resulted in China banning some items, hoping to put pressure on Aus to retract and stop their investigations. China was using the import bans to put Aus at a financial difficulty, as it relies on imports, only to have it backlash on them. I appreciate your article and I enjoyed it. I just think the title is a bit click baity.

[@2001cavador]

He forgot to mention the massive real estate downturn in China because of overbuilding,(ie they now have hundreds of new high rise cities that have turned into ghost cities with nobody living there causing the real estate collapse in China . Then he changes his story from Australian Coal to Chinese sparrows getting fat on their grain.

[@RaspberryWhy]

you are right. But I still think its a great example of be careful what you wish for

[@roywalker7512]

We will see who this backlashes on eventually.

[@silvionovacek6814]

Will This Be The Last-Past Cultural Revolution Of The Chinese Communist Government ? The Trade War With Australia.Cos, This Won't Do No Good 4 Either Of The 2 Countries ! And The Other Thing Ís Cos,The World's Factory= China.Can't Stop Working ! Cos,All The Wealthy-Rich= World's Business People's, They're Buying Cheaply-Cheap From China And R Selling Those Goods At Sky's High Prices Ín Every Rich Or, Poor Country Of The World ! So,China Ísnt And Won't Be The Only Losser Ín This Trade War.And By The Way ! There Ís Nth Korea.Mongolia.Russia Close By,Just Over The River.Poland.Ucraine...Which Can Sell Coal's 2 China ! And Just Like Armed Conflicts: War's Hurm Both Or,Many Camp's So,Does The Economic-Trade War's ! But,Will Humans Ever Learn That ? This ???

[@roywalker7512]

@@silvionovacek6814 Shit yes, China's f****d, Australia to powerful for china. You show them, who's in charge.

[@TheHandymanQld]

Where is this "Port of Queensland" you mention?

[@davidhayes9893]

Hey awesome videos

[@revcrussell]

Hey Jack, there is a knock-on effect in the aluminum industry because much of the hardening agent magnesium comes from one city in China that uses lots of coal.

[@ninnolose7298]

There is no aluminum shortage. There is a cheap aluminum shortage. A company called China Zhongwang was shipping goods into the US and other countries using aluminum pallets. The pallets was then "recycled" and melted down. This allowed them to skirt the tariff to the sum of 1.8 Billion USD. They were caught in Summer 2019 and a judgement against them came down around August this year. They use the shortage as an excuse to try to effect the judgement. There are no shortage. Look at your local supermarket or Super Stores. They are now making bottled water with aluminum at about $2 for 24 oz. A plastic bottle water is around $1.50. If there was a shortage, why would it be so cheap? Don't fall for the hype. Cheers.

[@stephenisheta8457]

CHINA IS DEAD!

[@silveriorebelo8045]

@@stephenisheta8457 American wishfull thinking is always funny to observe

[@stephenisheta8457]

@@silveriorebelo8045 go back to being poor in your third world country

[@Chris-es3wf]

@UCO8lpYtJ1F_RbUJrDeRVgkg CCP internal power struggles ahead of 2022 meeting. Hu Shulin fingering Xi after she called out others during corruption campaign. Turns out releasing/covering up a Pandemic isn't the best way to gain clout on the global stage... who knew...

[@MrMuel1205]

Just for the record, Queensland isn't a port, it's a state larger than Alaska. The port in question was Hay Point, near the city of Mackay.

[@lukedemler4421]

Wait holy shit, never knew that. Feel like australia military would be amazing too.

[@davidcollings1144]

Hey Matt, at 10.26 you are showing New Zealand's flag with 4 red stats, not that of Australia with has 6 white stars.

[@jamiewoollard9829]

Why at 10:30 are you showing the New Zealand flag while talking about Australia ?

[@nicholasharitonidis8170]

Australia was able to change its trading partners so quickly that it left China shocked by the lack of impact that their decisions made to the Australia economy. While Australia isnt free and clear from some of those impacts from the Chinese Goverment it highlighted for all of Australian's the importance of not having all your eggs in the one basket. Moving forward the next issue will be the cancellation of a 99 year lease of the port of darwin which is leased to a Chinese government linked business.. That will be one to watch as it will genuinely be a national defence issue for Australia

[@harrymason6346]

So, what is the big deal with the Port of Melbourne that everyone is whinging about?

[@Zappimmortal]

Actually America has made such a decision as well so Australia isn’t the only one that needs to watch its port. For America is the Long Beach port in California that a Chinese related business owns. Which is also a national security risk to America. I hope your politicians do what’s best for its citizens because right now I don’t know if my politicians are doing what’s best for American citizens. Stay safe and be well my friend.

[@lumtavon1952]

Now Vietnam is importing coal. And by accident they export to ..... This way all Happy but what a joke!!! Truly hope many move their industries away from China asap. What they do in Hongkong is also clear. The problem is the CCP ( Corrupt Communist Party) who doctrinate their population.

[@josephj6521]

Port of Darwin was signed-off by Scott Morrison, the guy who supposedly “stood up” to China to Australia’s pediment. Scott was merely doing Trump’s dirty work to criticize China. It didn’t work.

[@harrymason6346]

Andrew Robb may have helped so he could get a decent job later on!

[@PhunkBustA]

10:48 never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

[@danuk500]

@Max St. Arlyn I don't know about National Socialist, but they've definitely switched from Communism to Fascism

[@danuk500]

@Max St. Arlyn Yeah, I really wouldn't call Russia National Socialist. A nationalist state? Yes. National socialist? Nope.

[@throughdude23]

All these countries leaders need to go. We can blame anything but in reality these morons have become greedy and think they have power. They forgot that they only have what we allow them to have. Tides might be changing in favor of people realizing that the fools who are supposed to represent us are too stupid to do so.

[@stevenpeng3]

@@danuk500 yes, China invading Iraq, Syria and even kill children in Afagam, China is Fascism!

[@danuk500]

@@stevenpeng3 Care to elaborate?

[@peach69au]

Port of Queensland? New Zealand flag shown instead of Australia’s? Enjoyed the video but the errors made call into question the rest of the information.

[@endersteve27]

Any update?

[@graemesydney38]

Why you attributed this crisis to Australia I have no idea. This was all China's doing, or more specifically, Xi's doing - due to Xi's incredibly thin skinned sensitivity to any criticism, implied or direct, as well as Xi's and China's exaggerated sense of power and importance. Australia simply has found new markets. In this sense it wasn't China vs Australia, it was China vs the world. And the coal/power crisis is only one of many economic, political and social mismanagements converging at the moment in China.

[@James-jh3sz]

Kinda funny how Australia literally has no say in this matter and he decided to make that the title.

[@graemesydney38]

@@James-jh3sz Click bait sensationalising?

[@set3777]

China's Coal imports from Australia Plummet 98.6%, but India, S. Korea fill the Gaps Coal export from Australia actually went up. Better not to depend on China

[@ninnolose7298]

Because if he put the name of the country who is really responsible for it in his title, he would be brigaded by their shills.

[@mvilla9754]

@@ninnolose7298 You right, just look at all the shills already posting here. It is kinda funny. :)

[@chrisbraid2907]

Any massive over reaction to a minor problem without decent research can result in a massive failure in something critical . China saw Australia as just another small westernised nation, forgetting the conversion of their coal fired generation to be optimised for Australian Coal that then lowered the efficiency if coal using non Australian Coal. This is a great lesson for Xi. Having a market and money doesn’t make you a king … you need the resources to feed your productivity … The Chinese Government needs to fall and the country be taken over by people with ethics and principles.

[@donmichaelvillarma7099]

I'd rather have the Taiwanese government take over the Mainland.

[@bobbertonsmivelton7019]

I completely agree, the sweatshops are getting out of hand, but I don't believe a big western country can really milk China for it's oil if it crashed down, more help it's factories and such, increase education so that there's more technology, whilst the technology will help factories create better and more useful products helping the workers get paid and such

[@learningtho582]

@@donmichaelvillarma7099 oooo nice one

[@soggmeisterlasagnagarfield]

Every time an Asian nation fell, it became a colony to a European nation. No one has ethics or principles. That’s why so many of those nations became socialist. They fell victim to the shart of capitalism, which is capitalism. We cannot have ethics when everything we do is for capital. Sorry, but you cannot have both wealth and morals.

[@nehcooahnait7827]

@@bobbertonsmivelton7019 “the sweat shops getting out of hands oh no”

[@hllywdunddnnpnt]

omg as an aussie, I am shocked and embarrased that I completely overlooked 10:30, I only noticed after reading the comments and looked back on the video, that the new zealand flag was shown blowing in the wind for a good couple of seconds, although its blatenly obvisous its the NZ flag, I never noticed. With the statement at the beginning of the video "The topas left the port of queensland", this was something I did pick up straight away, and thought, "well thats not right", but I assumed that it was just a typo in the videos script, and the narrator was supposed to say "The topas left a port OFF Queensland". But given the theme and detail of the article, it does seem strange why they wouldn't do the research to get the name of the exact port.

[@johndenney6524]

That was the New Zealand flag at about 10mins and 28secs. Lol. Very informative video though, thank you.

[@tonysu8860]

I imagine if Australia can find other customers, it might not ship coal to China. I also assume that any new contracts with China would cover unexpected costs associated with stalled previous shipments and Australia can feel comfortable charging any price it wants for its coal. I also understand that coal power plants optimize for the grade of coal it burns, so changing from, and possibly back to Australian coal is not easy, is costly and requires time with each switch.

[@Scott89878]

I think the west needs to move their manufacturing into India

[@jaymarx]

@@Scott89878 it’s time for some new cheap labors, except India is not investing its infrastructure like China to keep the efficiency. And we don’t even want to invest our own infrastructure here in the US…

[@lukethomson1358]

China is Australia's biggest trading partner, so we're pretty dependent on them. Also, the world is transferring to renewables, so Australia's dependency on coal exports is very worrying. Our government has completely cocked it up by being too friendly with mining lobbyists.

[@insectbite1714]

@@lukethomson1358 Australia is a horrible 3rd world country

[@johnparker3300]

@@insectbite1714 Yes we are, don't come here its a horrible. i have to go now my wagyu ribeye is almost cooked on the BBQ and i havent opened the Dom Perignon Luminous , still wondering if i should cover my ribeye with gold leaf 😎 PLEASE HELP AUSTRALIA