Australia's China Problem
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As a resident of Alice Springs, I love seeing my town mentioned for something non crime related
Lol
You say that, but internet is yet another aspect of Australia fucked over by China. In a trade deal they made with Telstra, they gained a monopoly on infrastructure, rolling out the new ‘NBN’. Turns out we decided to redo our entire system and replace with more copper cables, instead of fibre optic, like America.
@@asmodeus235 rip, even us kiwis use fibre optic cables for internet
@@asmodeus235 Lol our internet is worse than Romania's
@@sebbyh9764 5G will be our savior
"Australia is definitely not a superpower"
This man has clearly never played Risk
Will Kirsch LOL I LOVE THIS COMMENT
Australia is very much so an Asia-Pacific geographical superpower
@@kpreilly superpower lmao
Australia is OP, pls nerf.
@@HonorViego me too😃😃
It's interesting. The video doesn't mention Hobart, the capital city of the state of Tasmania. I bring it up because despite being the smallest state and only having a population of a quarter million, it's geographically the same size as England, resource rich and all arable.
England’s a bit bigger than tassie
That's because Tassie is an afterthought, basically never impacts the rest of the country
The act is the smallest state champion
So it could hold more than 20 million people easily?
Maybe New England?
Funny story...I worked in the Australian higher education sector when the pandemic started. Not so many international students after that, resulting in a huge funding issue for our universities. The fact of the matter is that, for a lot of international students, Australia's lifestyle and social stabiltiy was part of the attraction. That's not such a big deal with remote-based education.
You didn't mention the money they can make working.
So this video wasn't made possible by Skillshare?
I'm uncomfortable
lolololololol
😂😂🤪
Benjamin Michael von Lichtenwald #FuckShopify
No Skillshare AND no planes!
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The down votes are actually up votes from Australia
I understood the reference
I will never See the downvote Button the Same lol
Now that's funny.
@@martiddy Good for you?
😂😂😂 what a legend
"China mocked Australian president" I think the general population does that aswell
I guess it is no fun to be an Australian Prime Minister. Everybody loves a pop shot at him.
What President? it's Prime Minster and that guy was a total wanker
Especially ScoMo… he was an idiot 😂
@@richardgoh8725 because he is a puppet of the monarchy same as Canada's dunce.
I died a little when he said "irregardless" at 11:05.
Was looking for a comment. Even looked up merriam webster for my owm sanity #sad
Gretchen Weiners was his English Teacher.
Ha! Me too!
I said that same word in front of an english teacher, she told me that I shouldn't use that word. It's not correct, or something.
Come to find out it's just an 'improper' word. Still a word.
Death by a thousand cuts.
Even China's got a China problem at this point.
"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide." -China
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms
@@SweetMattieG It's been united for only 70 years. Most dynasties that unite China run for 300-ish. And by Beijing and Taipei's official stance, it is actually not completely united.
@@eugeneng7064 And the last government lasted 37 years. The CCP has a ways to go before it's fully stable. Probably after they transition to a period where they stop floating their economy with real estate developments that no one will ever live in.
@@SweetMattieG The Chinese economy's growth is largely fueled by consumption since 2016? Sure they have a shit tonne of political problems, economically they're starting to become more mature.
Australia: we like western ideals of freedom and prosperity!
China: no you don’t
Australia: no we don’t!
New Zealand is just building tanks out of tractors on the side.
Freedom? Maybe.
Prosperity? Hell no.
Here in Canada we the middle working class get taxed like no tomorrow to support the 1%.
@@stevencooper4422 Ha! As a kiwi that cracked me up.
I mean, China is economically speaking is prosperous nation so prosperity isn’t that big of a issue.
Well.. to be fair China has prosperity. It's 1st or 2nd largest economy in the world (2nd nominal, 1st PPP) and still has great growth rates.
Freedom? Not even remotely...
“Australia is definitely not a superpower”
Sam’s apparently never played tf2
@@jeremywillis7234 wdym bro speak English
@God and a bunch of spiders
New Zealand : HEY WHAT ABOUT ME
what does titanfall have anything to do with australia
@@rtfire7177 nah yeah nah. About as many as the foreign students and we treated them I'm ashamed to say worse than the Cannuks treated the Inuits or the Sepo's treated the Indians.
This video definitely has flavors of the book "The Accidental Super power", which I highly recommend.
Omg Wendover has lost it. I can't believe this...
A whole video with no aviation whatsoever...
Yes, I was very suprised he didn't even mention them when going into Australia's Isolation. It would've been easy.
I'll fix that.. Alice Springs is a 2 hour flight to pretty much anywhere else in the country
dude he covers lots of topics without aviation
Sad music playing too :(
Can anybody please tell the name of the background music from 2:26 to 4:14 ? Thanks in advance🙂
They're also the largest producer of eggs because HowToBasic lives there.
That makes them the largest destroyer of eggs
So thats why he is so insane...
you mean consumer gosh
I like eggs
Can anybody please tell the name of the background music from 2:26 to 4:14 ? Thanks in advance🙂
That enormous period of continuous growth can largely be attributed to the former Prime Minister Paul Keating. A political juggernaut.
And Bob Hawke just as much if not more
The definition of irregardless is "regardless." Just say regardless.
No it’s regard
then let's just stop using synonyms altogether
Kind regards,
@@chl_ca it's an antonym, except it's not
Australia is more comparable to Canada - another vast, affluent, mineral-rich, English-speaking countries and has the same Head of State.
No legal weed :(
Good joke
Australia and New Zealand are a lot like Canada
@@likeone12 ?
And a common motherland! Unite the Anglosphere and bring together CANZUK! 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿
Update as of the 3rd week of July: Australia has openly taken sides in the South China Sea maritime dispute, and has sided against China.
That was kinda dumb. Like, really DUMB.
China medical team in Uganda 20th, ok.
the only thing that matters is that on July 13, 2020 the US Navy decided to officially reject all chinese claims to the south china sea. thank god for trump, hilary wouldve appeased them to the point of territorial expansion
that will be what saves australia, war is coming soon.
@@AP-jl2lv And who is Trump to even have an opinion in the matter of the South China Sea? It is called the South CHINA Sea for a reason.
@@comingviking What about countries like Mauritius in the Indian Ocean? They aren't Indian.
I always thought Australia had more in common with Canada than the US.
“Too much reliance on any economy, no matter how strong economy may be, is a risky strategy.”
*Laughs in Canadian*
That title looks and sounds like an ai generated wendover productions video title
You know the reason why this channel can pump out so many videos such a rapid pace?
All videos after 2016 are AI generated
Basically
@Stanley Daniels australia is just Chile done right: shitload of valuable minerals exported to China, close political- cultural ties to the US and Europe, fairly continuous economic growth for decades, and so on.
@@Weirdude777 that's cool but we have better wine. Priorities
@@gabo4850 ah sí 1oo%
"Australia is definitely not a superpower", tell that to our native fauna.
Australia is a classically isolated, island ecological system. As such it's very vulnerable despite the common image of dangerous animals and all that (plus the major mammals and other animals died quite some time ago, possibly due to humans).
All of this means Australia's flora and fauna is getting fucked over by climate change, habitat loss, fragmentation, bad government policies (yay conservatives :P), and invasive species.
Yup 100% conservatives at fault with everything, at all times regardless of the issue.
Umm they are the only country that’s army lost to actual animals
Tell that to the emus.
Come on guys that was 1000's of Emu vs like 15 guys with muskets
If you ignore the "America No.1" bullsh't at the start, the rest of the video is really quite spot on.
surprising he nailed the pronunciation of brisbane and melbourne
"What the country definitely is not, though, is a superpower." _Shows stock footage of kangaroos hopping_
Yeah look kangaroos are the most suicidal animal I know.
It is like they see a 3 tonne land whale coming and go. Ooh let's just stand in the middle of the road..
We also fought a war against the emus. It did not go very well.
@@Delta040301Australia's the only country who could lose a war against emus
@@viper7526 Australia's the only country with emus
3rror200 he’s American he doesn’t know anything outside of North America they are not that bright. You will see it a lot so you’ll have to give them some leniency towards their incredible ignorance
'Australia has had 28 years without a recession'
Covid-19: hey
Sir Loaf
Australians: Oh Hey!
Australians: ......... Oh look at the time! I need lunch!
COVID: No, No stay
(I am a Aussie)
actually its the result of poor management by the party currently in power.
Dylan Huntly what you mean? And are you Aussie?
Sneezy- Boi you don’t need to be Aussie to know that the liberals can’t manage shit
(I’m half Aussie) also
Covid-19:hey
Western Australia: Fuck you mate
get the latest lego helicopter and rescue the survivor
Where was this channel all my life!!! Can’t stop watching your videos!
America, Australia and Japan must cooperate to solve the China problem!
New Zealand made the right move to block any purchasing on its land
🤣🤣🤣
Salute to new Zealanders for respecting your nation and yourselves. I'm a Filipino and I wish that our society and government will act like you someday
Would have been an excellent move 15 years ago!! lil to late now eh
They also blocked Huawei from building their 5G infrastructure
@@bikosteve8864 5gs are to dangerous. maybe thats why.. or also because of spying issues of china.
11:04 "irregardless"
**eye twitches**
How was that again? Theres "regardless" and "irrespective"? I thought irregarfless was an invention of the European government politicians...
Was going to comment the same thing
It’s a word that people who think they know English well dislike, but it is a word nevertheless.
i just use irrespective when i feel like saying irregardless. regardless, irregardless is double negative so its a word but we don't grant you the rank of dictionary word.
@@denniswatson6622 It's a word only because people kept using it incorrectly. It literally means the same thing as regardless. It's an improper word that should not be used in an academic or educational context. From Merriam-webster: "There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead."
If anything people who defend the word irregardless and fail to mention its lack of legitimacy are the ones who think they know English.
We escaped recession because of Rudd's good financial management.
Shame he couldn’t do anything else well
Nah, Howard.
did I just witness an american pronouncing Brisbane right? You sir, have my respect.
He said irregardless though...
@Screw youtube for americans it certainly seems to be
@@Asimov_ that’s right. They say (Mel-Born) and (Bris-Baine). When it’s (Mel-Bun) and (Bris-Ban)
*Australia* : _we have minerals_
*China* : _I need your clothes, boots and motorcycle_
why they need those when they can produce them?
Bad to the bone!
Just watched that film last night...
Terminator
Fuck China
"Foreigner gets Australian cities names correct"
Hmmm, we shall spare this man
Praise be Ned Kelly! We found one! We finally found one! MAKE THIS FOREIGNER THE NEW PRIME MINISTER!
How do people get them wrong? Just asking
but he said irregardless
@@SJokes Speaking as an ignorant foreigner: something many people don't know ist that you're supppsed to pronounce Melbourne not Mel-BORN but MEL-Bin and Canberra not Can-BER-Ra but CAN-Bra
(Or something like that)
@@henrikr.822 Ahh okay I see
Thank you for featuring Australia and its relationship with China, but this video did not even scratch the surface, and provided no analysis of the “China problem”..Australian politicians have tried to reach out to Chinese government officials for two years and have been ignored by those Chinese officials. What your video did show is the need for Australia to have a diverse economic interaction with other countries other than China
It's Impressive how well this aged
"Chinese media mocks australian prime minister."
Hah! So do Australians.
Fuck him
This is the heart of the problem. A free media may mock a leader for his mediocrity and shallowness (this is fundamentally Morrison), whereas a dictator may not be mocked at the behest of your own livelihood or even life. That is seriously f**ked up. For the free and brave at heat, the only solution is revolution.
J K
Australia produces raw materials though, China could just turn around and buy from anyone else.
Xi poo show me on this doll how much the Chinese have hurt you.
Xi poo u can hate CCP, but u have no right to criticise eating dog
Moral of the video: don't put all your eggs in one Chinese basket
Yep, quite alarming how reliant on China, Australia is!
That what Taiwan is trying to do in the past few years.
But still put a lot in the China basket or you'll get left in the dust
i agree, rid the country of the masonic club in parliament together with the rothschild usury system of slavery central banking cartel! print money as they do! the reserve b of aust. will tell you otherwise.. the same ones that cleaned out all the gold from our reserves and stopped it to the bank of england without any trace.
Unless you like your eggs tyrannized and propagandized.
The claim that Australia would be affected by a China/Australia trade war more than China would has not really been shown to be true. Blackouts etc are causing serious issues in China. Australia is just continuing on.
Yeah exactly, all of China's doings have not affected Australia's economy other than Covid which was slight
I wish more of the world would see China as it really is, a paper tiger.
@@BradTN_ bro r u serious? did u not watch the video china has stopped allowing international students over which generates roughly 40 billions dollars a year at its peak, but that figure now has since halved. They are also our biggest exported and importer and without them our economy will become stagnant we are basically useless without them. Right now our economy has yet to even recover from the covid situation and without china it'll be even harder.
@@mgac1206 Australia's economy is more stable than China's. Especially since we've prospered without them. Leaving China behind will promote industrial growth in the homeland and international partners will inevitably replace China in all aspects. China tried coercing us through economic punishment, instead, they hurt themselves and Australia was relatively untouched.
@@BradTN_ if by "stable" you meant "stagnant in the moment china decides so" you nailed it
Wendover Productions Documentaries are really good, Objective, well researched, excellent presentations, thank you guys for your knowledge and top notch research.
"Australia would not exist without Amercia" is the most American thing I've ever heard
There are three reasons to say this though (I'm not American by the way):
* The loss of the penal colonies (although couldn't Canada have fulfilled this role?)
* WWII - the USA was undoubtedly the main opponent to Japan in the Pacific, and probably influenced Japanese attitudes towards Australia.
* The Cold War - the south east Asian situation in the sixties and seventies could have easily spilled over into Australia.
Anon B the 1st and 2nd I can kind of see, the last one is utter rubbish. Countries that flip to communism are usually either poor, unstable or aren’t democracies. Australia was none of these.
@@tomm5663 Australia has a very unstable climate and economy, and had a strong history of hard leftism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, so it's not that unlikely.
Anon B our economy is more stable than you would think. Though in this video claims that we survive off of our mineral exports, in reality, most of our gdp is financial services and real estate. We weathered the 2008 gfc while the rest of the western world collapsed. Though we did have somewhat of a hand to play in hard leftism, it was very clearly welfare capitalism, rather than communism or socialism.
@@tomm5663 Financial services and real estate are even more fickle industries than extractive ones. I believe the last global crash was largely down to these.
Why didn’t England just send their convicts to Canada?
Trudeau didn't want them
No Canada had too much surfers making prisons surf
Synthesis England only gained much of Canada in the 1760’s after a war involving France (hence the French speaking region of Québec) and the colonisation of Australia began in 1788. As such Canada, with its frozen tundra and the technology of the time was probably quite underdeveloped and not suitable maybe. Could’ve also just been a mix of both to gain territory in the Far East but not sure
Not even convicts deserve to live in such a place
At the time, the majority of what was considered Canada was still by and large French speaking colonists from the New France colony.
One of the treaties implemented (and that lead to the American Revolution) stipulated that the British Government would, in several important aspects, remain hands off in the public affairs of what was now Canada, at this time the important places being the region of modern day Quebec and Nova Scotia.
That treaty guaranteed protections for the huge majority (80%+) of the Canadian population [not counting the first nations, red river, matis, and so on] that were French speaking Catholics. Conversely, British Colonials and convicts were largely English speaking Protestants.
A newly conquered Quebec wasn't particularly overjoyed that they were now under British rule. Sending convicts that also weren't happy that they literally got shoved a world away, on top of the cultural and religious barrier between native language and belief. Toss in that the American Revolution was on the way and you've just got a perfect brewing pot for losing the colony to rebellion, revolution, or being conquered by the Americans.
Manifest Destiny already cost the British government about 1/2 of the North American investment. Mexico was a pipe dream for the Spaniards. A newly conquered un-assimilated, culturally different and linguistically foreign population had their cooperation being contingent on keeping the locals happy. Keep in mind that the British conquered the French colonies within the life times as Nelson and Napoleon engaged in fisticuffs back in Europe. This is still after centuries of on and off conflict between the British and the French, and now you're telling me you were going to dump British "undesirables" in Canada. Do you WANT to lose the other half of your investment?
French remained French. Anything the British did had to stay out of the French's way. The British spent another hundred years after losing the original 13 colonies to the American Revolution treading on eggshells keeping Canada from falling into the hands of Benjamin Franklin's vision of a truly Continental United States.
I'd say the British effots were largely successful. Modern day Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world by landmass. And only achieved full autonomy and disconnect from the British Government back in 1982 when the British Government allowed Canada amend their own constitution as they saw fit without passing things by the Governor General (Queen's representative to Canada) first.
Canada is still part of the British commonwealth, like Australia, and hasn't expressed any serious interest in fully leaving the crown's domain since.
The card the US got that we didn’t is the Mississippi River.
did the TH-cam algorithm really think the keynote "Sydney" was a license plate? That's gotta be what it is and that's really funny and sad.
“sidney“ i’m sorry, sam, we can’t protect you anymore
Don't forget he pronounced it melbern when it is mel-bel
Only god can save him now
Edit: this thread is now an aussie thread 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Irregardless. . .
Lol, mad aussies!
@@571lama firstly, he literally made my head explode. He thought he snuck it in there, but he madded us when we discovered it. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna watch a whole nother video.
USA: We are the king of the world forever. Anybody who want to challenge me is the bad guy
Australia: *manages to go 28 years without a recesison*
Coronavirus: I'm about to ruin this man's whole career
The recession was gonna come anyway due to the libtards
SoL0rson DY not libtards, liberals.Those numbskulls have been screwing up the economy since kingdom Come.
Christ help us with Labor back. Union hacks are not business people.
@@TheCambella Yeah better than the business people who only care about them selves and would kill off an entire species for 5k
TheCambella neither are the LNP. Difference is labor saved us in the last gfc, libs have fucked us. Good economic managers my ass
Really impressed with how this video went so smoothly
Please do a video on the geography of the Middle East. You could also probably talk about how its geography makes it a transit hub for the world
Thank you for talking about this, it’s no secret here in Australia that we are slowly becoming a puppet state of China. In fact when a book was being published about this issue, despite having gained media attention before release 4 publishers refused to publish it out of fear of China. 1 of them has never sold a book in China.
So true, we do not even have the opportunity to criticise Communist China on our own land.
Layla it’s fucked
@@khadrockslol your own land? When did Australia become white man's land? You killed and looted the natives and now have the nerve to call it your land.
@@preciousjose See below. Meet face! Nice arse-umption, dingbat.
Layla other than not being able to influence their government, what other freedoms do they not have? Are you also aware to the privileges ethic minorities have in China? Have you ever looked at a Chinese history text book? Lol keep taking in the shit fed by your media. I’m not saying that they are not doing anything bad, but they are not as bad as people think they are when you actually care to look at the whole picture.
Australia clearly has much more in common with Canada than America.
I cringed so hard when he said that. Just because two countries were colonized by the British Empire doesn't mean they have much in common. The US geography played a huge role in its development and is fairly unique. It's more comparable to a place like France than Australia, since they both have river systems that lead to a strong sense of identity.
Thats funny, because Canada and the US are amazingly the same. Driving down the road, you can't even tell the difference. It' could be another state! Ya, I know they are a common wealth and all that, but have you really been to both places?
aside from a few political views.......I don't think you could tell if I dropped in in either country.
yeah like most people dont think austraila and canada exsit
@@shawnjavery River systems lead to a strong sense of identity?
@@markcash2 typically yes. When its easy to stay in touch with other people a stronger sense of identity tends to emerge
As a citizen of Australia I would not say our landscapes are the same at all. When the first Europeans came hear they said it was to dry.
yep America is way colder than Australia
@@egg-iu3fe certain parts are, the southern U.S. though is much more similar in weather to Australia
1:51 I ate with my wife at the restaurant in Washington, DC on the left in 2012. It was Tony Cheng's and I got the Mongolian grill. We ate a lot on that trip.
I just lost a brain cell while reading your comment. It's either your fault or I suck at life, and my coin is on later
@@gloomy3501 I understood what he said so ya.
@@gloomy3501 did you read I ate my wife
Hell yeah you mentioned Perth and even called us a city! so many docos used to refer to us as a "small country town"
Small country town? Wait, this is Perth, don't I know you?
Thriving music city
Plum_ Pie I live in Florida, USA, and my uncle Ross (Lightfoot) lives in Perth (he was a federal senator there). I Oz but I love Florida too.
Most likely American docos
Nobody lives there! The streets were completely deserted when I went there
So we can conclude that there are at least 4 people in Austrailia.
The two big cities Melb and Syd are pretty populated, actually to crowded now, many people leave the bigger cities to live less hectic lives to smaller cities / towns on the coast, seachange.
@@iggyblitz8739 yeah, at least 1 person per city
@Hyper Tube-Dale2006_D Welcome to the show!
Christine Lawrence r/whoooosh
@@christinelawrence4315 bruh
7:47 "heh let's just wait for that dip around 2008"
.... w h a t
as person who led the WeChat study on PM, I’m glad to see it used in context
Australia: exists*
China: its free real estate
Anyone with more than $3 million dollars is granted free citizenship in Australia, let the whoring of the land begin.
Not really- we got sold the fuck out by our politicians
@Chris Russell That's the beauty of it Chris, that $3 million buys you entry and all you pay is a small amount of business tax and you get to import foreign workers under a workers visa and ship profits and resources overseas. And people think Pimps are only on the corner flogging a women off for $100 an Hr, ha.
@@disobedientavocado5959 I disagree with your last comment mate, very unaustralian..
@@disobedientavocado5959 any foreign student passing a course gets residency. Just wait for citizenship
Wendover: Video about Australia Lets release it an 4:30am. Australia: Thanks Wendover.
I think because it’s more targeted for US and Europe (I’ve got 9pm in Moscow)
Is it a race who gets to see it first?
Mate its 2:27am in Perth right now
@@LucasSanga almost 6am in Melbourne
DextroTV sleep then
Good thing I listened all the way through or I would have missed the use of the word “irregardless” lmao
Australia should stop issuing PRs to PRC citizens. I don't understand why so many PRs are granted to Chinese citizens. Shouldn't there be a quota to prevent certain groups of people from flooding the country?
the "emptiness" (2 lane road) of Australia is relative to our population. Our roads may sound somewhat pathetic but it's not like we have traffic jams and a real need to change it.
More than that, we spend entirely too much on road infustructure. It's a great investment for sure but - again - relative to our population they are just not efficient decisions.
He made sure to mention it twice for shock factor because americans can't understand it
Driving thru pennant Hills to get to Coffs harbour is by far the most infuriating thing about this country
I think the section on the road network and inland centres is a bit poorly informed and more focused on reinforcing a viewpoint that the australian landscape is too desolate to support life than portraying things accurately.
Using alice springs as an example as our largest inland population centre is a strange choice. There are plenty of larger cities that are still plenty far from the coast. Albury wodonga (300km pop 96k), Wagga wagga (350km pop 64k), Bendigo (150km pop 108k) or Toowomba (150km pop 140km). These aren't big population numbers sure but they're in our 20 largest cities.
The road that is used in the video to connect all the coastal capital cities is pretty nonsense. While some parts of that route are valid for most part it's a borderline scenic route that links smaller coastal towns. For large portions of the route people would drive inland on higher capacity more direct routes eg the hume from melb to syd and the GEH from Adelaide to Perth. When you consider that so much of our transport is by truck this is to be expected.
The point the video tries to make is that Australia and the US are very similar but the desolate nature of Australia's landscape has held it back by comparison. In truth the US and Australia have pretty similar percentages of desert and arid land, you just have a lot more people living in it. The US is a lot older and came into the industrial revolution with pre existing population centres that were evenly spread out over 200 years of pre industrial growth. Australia on the other hand had populations concentrated in a handful of colonies along the east coast from the outset, which just became more dense with people, jobs and opportunities as the country industrialised further. Today Australia has the same population as the US in the 1850s and has lacked the pressure and economic opportunity (aside from mining) since to strongly populate and develop these more isolated areas the same way the US has.
Eh, it took me about 90 minutes to drive 40 kilometres during the peak morning hours from Blacktown to North Sydney a couple of weeks ago, slogging along the M7/M2 motorways. It's not all smooth sailing in Australia. Of course, it's not as bad as Los Angeles or Manila (was also there 3 weeks ago), but Australian cities have their traffic issues too.
Well everyone knows the road tax collected at the pump about 70 cents a litre is a scam to feather the beds of corrupt politicians who's connections own all the plant hire companies and all the traffic control companies. More orange traffic control cones in Australia than people. Roadworks in Australia is a rort.
0:50 tried to blur “Sidney” but it was too late
In all honesty the USA and China both have similar shipping times to get here, that being a couple of weeks. However shipping costs $100+ per item from America and essentially nothing from China. A free trade agreement would easily eliminate our dependence on Chinese manufacturing, although America is facing a similar problem itself. The five eyes need to be closer trading partners!
All of the west. Not just five eyes.
I thought Australia was a conspiracy created by the Emu Protection League.
finally a real comment based on facts!
Cringe dead meme.
See all the racist emus in the comments trying to silence you
Look at this racists, they are trying to silence you by criticizing your works of truth.
Oh shit, they're onto us...
A Wendover video that doesn’t have airplanes in it AND isn’t sponsored by skillshare. Crazy times we live in.
annoying fuck
Harun Anver sponsored by cia
i didn’t know about this beforehand thanks
Love australia spent a year there and loved it but it's too expensive everything costs a fortune, if I'm being completely honest it's a little bit boring but I would go back
After studying at three different universities in Australia in three different cities, international students are starting to become a big problem.
They pay approximately five times more in tuition fee's than domestic students, so the uni's put emphasis on international students over domestic students by advertisement, allowing more international students to study at the universities each year, manipulating the campus culture and the grading system. It is incredibly annoying as someone who wants to study and learn more about what I am studying, it gets edited and filtered to get more international students when it could quite easily be changed in the same way just to be a sound education system.
The first example is my mum marked hundreds of papers for several years while doing her master's and doctorate which she graduated from earlier this year, and it is incredible the amount of paper's she got which were unintelligible, it was astonishing as to how many were clearly written in another language and then put through Google Translate. Because of this, the universities ask markers to mark to a 60% median. Consequently, students who clearly should not pass, end up passing only because if more than half the students in a course fail, it looks terrible on the university. Even if you do not stick to a 60% median, the university will review your marking once completed and adjust it if it is not at the 60% median. In my opinion, it is a very unethical, dishonest, and illegitimate way of marking university papers.
The other issue I have with how the universities function with regards to international students, is they continue to allow more and more to enrol. This results in the culture of the universities changing significantly, because many of the students come from countries which are not politically peaceful like Australia, e.g. China. Consequently, you have protests and fights (in worst-case scenarios) regularly over political issues in other countries, on-campus. I am just trying to learn about psychology, and I would rather my education was not interrupted by protests about issues which do not have any impact or relation to what I am studying, my friends, family, or my country because this is not China or Hong Kong. You are protesting for things which do not exist in Australia, and there is nothing an Australian student can do to help you with the issues you have in your country.
The promotion of diversity and international students at the universities also means, the student accommodations on-campus get unfairly overcrowded with international students. I lived on-campus at the Australian National University for one year, and 70-80% of the students in my building were international, and 40-45% had significant trouble speaking English. As a domestic student, it becomes very isolating. I do not have an issue with experiencing other cultures. I am fortunate enough to have travelled a lot for my age, but at the end of the day, my culture is with Australia, as well as my nationality, it is what I am proud to call myself, I prefer to live with Australians as I have for my entire life, if I wanted to live with Chinese people, I would study in China, but Australia is what is familiar to me. If that seems wrong to say to you, I can tell you the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Hong Kong students do not have a problem with it, they rarely go outside there cultural groups, because it is human nature to find comfort in what we find familiar.
I do not know whether these actions are intentional on the universities part, but it certainly comes across that way. Also, I have not written a YT comment in many years, but this video illuminated some issues I have been experiencing over the past four years, and I hope it can offer some insight to others.
I can agree with you on most of the stuff you have said but being in a developed country and a nation made of immigrants embracing globalisation is good for the economy.
We have similar problems here in the UK with foreign students at universities, although not only from China. They are so profitable to the university that it completely warps their priorities towards gaining more foreign students at any cost.
I relate to your post so much and i agree with every single sentence. I went to Usyd and many of the fourth year classes, were 90% chinese students, and maybe 5% Indians and 5% Australians and others. Even the lecturer had a strong Chinese accent. This one of the many reasons why i'm a banana, yellow outside, white inside, i'm of Chinese ancestry but pro-western.
Needless to say, I don't dislike Chinese people, some really are just trying to get by and improve their lives, and barely able to do in some of their personal circumstancese, but there's just so many of them at my university.
Interesting observations thanks for sharing. The sad fact is most Australian universities are very reliant on international student fees. This helps fund places for local students. It is not healthy that so many international students come from the one country.
MrVeersam No it isn’t. It just creates a larger pool of workers so companies have more choices and are able to pay less and give less benefits.
Wendover:
Australia’s China Problem
Video comments:
Wendover’s “Sidney” spelling problem
that's why china is taking over the world, low IQ and don't give a buck attitude, if the poeple watching this video are so dumb to only care about spelling ignoring everything they saw, what can you expect from the rest.....
RIP freedom
That’s why the democrats are so hell bent on impeaching trump. Darn that drumpf for putting tariff on the Chinese
Amazing that I'm 26 now and we have been talking about China having to many of our eggs in their basket my whole life...no change 😳
Sorry, I'm not Australian so although this video explained a lot I'm still confused. Could you explain?
I think he meant the Australian economy being heavily reliant on China for exports.
@@jchan9761 ahh ok, thank you
I'm 28, I know exactly what you're saying. All my life I've seen these kinds of comments on the news and from the adults around me while growing up. The people knew that it was a recipe for disaster, but the politicians did nothing...
Now we're not truly free, and we never will be. I'm lucky that I qualify for UK ancestry. I'll be leaving soon.
@@crums0nMyJ4cket if that doesn't work out brothers down under are always welcome in the States! (I know where sorta a mess rn, but let me tell you also the media is shit here and we are sorta getting our stuff back together so yippee!)
Aussies : we’re gonna build a wall-
As it right now, Australia is having some arguements with China. I guess Wendover Prouctions do live in the future.
@Happy Thanos Really? China warned everyone and told everyone what to do. Yet western countries screwed up. They have those so-called "arguements" so they can shift people attentions from their incapability of dealing with the crisis. It is just a shame for all those countries. They have extra two months to prepare for this crisis. China was the first one hit by the virus, yet it only take less than two month to get everyone's life back to normal. And, if you don't like China as an example, check South Korea.
@@80KG_Costco_Chicken they denied that corona can't spread to people in around late December and January
@@80KG_Costco_Chicken 50 cents has been deposited to your account by the CCP.
@@kittikorn6674 china found the disease in december then found out that it was a new virus. they didn't care much cause they didn't think it was transmittable but then on january 23 they told the WHO and they found out that it was transmittable and shutdown the country
Kittikorn Tatar you can say this right now. But who understood this back in December?
>sees title
>sees uploader
Hey, wait a minute, you're not PolyMatter...
At the start i thought this was a video from china uncensored
Thanks for this backdrop information. I’ve been wondering why there’s been increasing tension between China and Australia. This explains a lot.
CCP: “Trust us comrade, we have a reputation for honesty and fairness “
Irony...
Unlimited
That trust literally brought Australia to better in every part of country from economy to avg income
Must be quality trust then hahahahah
@@metagde6402 Until we accidentally call Taiwan a country that is
No airplanes? Not even a single one? Come on, Wendover.
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Hit or miss please stop existing
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@@leepickaciel8998 chandler??
The 2020's are gonna be a hell of a decade.
Buckle up buckaroos
There's a lot more going on around than we may think...
@@gagevanlandingham8720 ohhhhhh yea
like what else is going on?
Don't remind me
Interesting how at the end of the video it switches from an information video to a straight pay commercial for shopify
Lol
That’s how sponsorships work, it’s not really unusual
DID WENDOVER JUST SAY "IRREGARDLESS"😭😂 NOOOOOOOOOO
Wendover: *does not include any airplanes in a video*.
*"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined"*
We got plenty of decent airports, he could've shown them! (They're not Changi or anything like that, but still!)
@@liranpiade4499 Of course, unlike Berlin...
This enraged his father, who punished him severely
Fun fact: both countries are highly dependent on air travel. And this video features aerial shots.
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Australia:*has minerals*
China: I’ll take your entire stock
Without a war. How clever :-)
I apologise I did not mean to offend you
@JIMI JAMES what the f*** are you trying to communicate?
Ever heard of checking your texting for legibility?
Speaking of which, why is Australia, a vast resourceful continent in Asia-Pacific, only a couple hundred miles away from South-East Asia had no Asian-Pacific Islanders in that vast land originally, historically inhabiting when Anglo pirates, some 10,000 miles away England, sailed half the world away, and looted in late 18th century? This doesn't make sense, since Asian-Pacific Islanders originally and historically inhabiting and residing in Pacific such as Guam, Tonga, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji and Hawaii? Speaking of New Zealand, why did these same Anglo pirates, sailed half way around the world and looted in late 18th century? Why didn't they occupy beautiful fertile Iceland, right above them just a short distant away, with hardly any people there? As a matter of fact, China has made no secret that it will one day help liberate the continent in Asia-Pacific it sees as rightfully belonging to people of Asia-Pacific. blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=711807
@@newyorkerjoe123 For one reason - natural resources. It's the same as any other European country. Asia Pacific has natural resources that Europe wanted but couldn't grow (like spices, for one).
Is that what China is saying? They are the ones who will liberate Asia Pacific? Sounds like Imperial Japan's WWII propaganda. If anything, China will be the new colonists. They will colonize Asia Pacific and control all the natural resources to satisfy their growing demand. It's happening now and no one is doing anything to stop them.
Hello thanx for the good work, if there's any transcripts?
five major city centers have emerged!
cairns, hobart, darwin, and tasmania : *Am I a joke to you?*
With populations in the 1 to 200,000 range they are not major centers.
Is it safe to have "China" in the title? I thought it would be an automatic demonitisation.
It seems to be like that nowadays.........
Well I got no adds, but Wendover is heavily supported by sponsors, so I doubt he cares much.
#freedomofspeech
@paul sticks okay Paul
paul sticks That you are Paul
It feels like it's too late for Australia. When it comes to our political issues everybody is just too self-centered and disinterested to care, years of easy living have made many of us soft and complacent, a recipe for collapse.
Most people here don't care about politics since it's obvious there will never be a political solution anywhere in the world. Trust me mate, no one is in power unless their comprised or the usual suspect.
@@rootedurdadingoulburngaol1503 Yep, everyone is in on the sick joke, but nobody really cares enough to treat it as anything more.
I feel like that here in the US.
Azoonaloc13
Yeah, as a Yank, I can see that. Aussies have it easy, very little turmoil or hardship, and that doesn’t encourage the population to be politically active.
Enthios we don’t...
04:38 um the road's go from sometimes 6 to 1 lane, depending how rural.
man your videos are so enticing i cant just choose one and stick to it i keep seeing other interesting videos by you lol
Australia: yeah mate, our huge country is mostly empty and only one road connects the whole country east to west.
Canada: I’m listening, amuse me child.
Raul Fuerte - What? Aren't Canadians capable of building a simple road across their nation?
David Earea what he means is that even canada is mostly made up of barren snow filled wastelands and most of the population resides in the south closer to the US...but even they have a well developed road network
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_in_Canada
Raul Fuerte I mean no? I can’t actually send an image but just google roads in Australia map to see that Australia is fairly linked up
@@anshu89 0
I'm not clear on why anyone expects us to build big roads through our deserts. Are the feral camels complaining about commute times?
Australia: *Has exports*
China: _"Give me that"_
Should be: "Sell me that".
Your lines are giving the feeling that China didn't pay
It's called capitalism.
@@red_boi9059 I'll take 33% of your entire stock :P
@@EeeLife with political pressure you can be sure China got some better than good deals
Just A Dio Who's A Hero For Fun Australia: Oi mate Good Day, wanna buy some coal?
China: Say Hello to my red purse!
every day that goes by, this video gets more relevant
2:00 That's not entirely true. Washington D.C. was put further south as part of the many compromises between the north and the south.
Americans: Gather your horses, oxen and wagons and go west, young man!
Australians: Thank God for airplanes!
Aeroplanes*
Burk and Wills Expedition in 1860 did exactly that except they chose to go up instead of across Australia. They died.
@@Jake-oz7rs fuck off
@@Jake-oz7rs its ok. the americans can't spell anyways
@@ghnna Don't the British spell the American variation of 'color' 'colour' and then proceed to pronounce it as 'kuh-luh'?
Polymatter’s about to get jealous now that youre talking about China
Polymatter will now talk about aviation
Polymatter is an idiot
@@aaaadit5155 *you
Good one, thanks.
Australia is clearly more like Canada. And to say they got the same hand as America when much of our land in uninhabitable desert (when much of the American heartland is rich for farming and manufacturing) is laughable lol
That "irregardless" at the end hurts my soul. :( This channel has some of the best writing on all of TH-cam.
it technically is just a nonstandard version of regardless but still :T
@@ensec6630 no
@@Sal3600 why y'all losing your shit over one word. Stop acting like toddlers and grow the fuck up
@@ensec6630 It's a slip of the tongue that happens when people want to say regardless but have irrespective on the brain because the two words are used similarly. It's a speech mistake that is canonized in writing. :(
@@Azaelris um
"If you owe the bank $100, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100 billion, you own the bank."
Same story.
I guess...
No that just makes you a trump for now. All that will change very soon especially when they find out that China is a big Financial bubble and most of the wealth is only on paper
Pamela Homeyer
You're literally saying that for decades.
Well this aged well. Its honestly all in all a good thing the bandaid was ripped off. Looks like you'll need to make one about New Zealand next though.
This has been an issue for a few years now. China has been asserting itself against the smaller countries it imports from.
Man these countries fk with their customers and then cry that the customer hits back
At this point china and Aus should de couple
Dear America, nobody in Australia calls the outback the outback. Usually it's referred to by region or name of place. For example the Pilbara, the Kimberley, up north, down south, the bush, the sticks.
Lmao they misspelled Sydney as "Sidney" then blurred it out
Lol I wondered why Syd was censored.