Im confused Taips. Agree with your criticisms of Chinese govt, But why were ouir businesses and Govt so compliant in importing their "slave labour "goods and exporting our own natural resources and Carbon emitting fuels for their factories, and even offshoring formerly profitable Australian businesses there to take advantage of Cheap Labour ? How has all that sent the signal to this totalitarian state that they need to smarten up ?
You'd better ask the late Gough Whitlam who opened up China to our country, and indeed Hawkie who prior to Tianemen was delighted with the growth in trade.They were not Libs.
I worked for an exporter who sold earlier fro many years to Italy and Japan as the main markets, the demand dwindled somewhat the market that took up the vacuum was China and still is. 1.4bn consumers wanting food, raw materials.
I suggest if they were not getting the food ,raw materials ,the average Chinese worker's standard of living would be nowhere where it is today.And trying to compare that with a Western worker is a bit rich ATM.
Plus that country has huge numbers of workers or would be workers ,coming into the cities from the countryside.The old law of supply and demand also comes into play.Thus you can blame Chinese manufacturers they have a huge choice and can offer a lot less.
Remember or maybe you don't decades ago,Japanese product was cheap as, but eventually their standard of living rose, and they priced themselves out of many industrial manufactures.Thailand and now Vietnam have taken over in many regards, due to cheap labour.
We also have nothing to cheer about, we have a decent number of Australians living below the poverty lone, some living under the stars or in cars.
Our continual push for wage increases in the 20th Century made ours,Japan,USA ,and Europe manufacturing too damn dear to make locally.If we had a viable car mfg industry ,the economic offshoots would have multiplied.
Large numbers of Chinese students come into Oz, for uni and TAFE education, that costs money.There are huge numbers of Chinese millionaires, are they taking advantage of the cheap labour?
President Xi has no qualms in cutting us off ,and even selecting if he so choose, these carbon emitting (and dirtier) fuels for their factories from the likes of Brazil.Even Albo would hold his hands up in horror.
If we were able to provide all our power with renewables and not have to dig crap out of the ground(iron ore will always be needed though),I'd be the first to lead the cheer squad.
There is talk of India wanting Western manufacturers to set up business in India, as a result of the China v Yank trade wars. Again huge population,cheap labour.
