Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 924 Closed-door Negotiation

   A story about the economic development of the Northern Territory in the next 20 years and 30 years is going on in the conference room of the Darwin Government Building.

   The entire meeting was not open to the public

   adopts a fully closed negotiation

The reason why    chose closed consultation is mainly because the Australian government does not want to expose the content of the consultation to the media prematurely.

   Up to now, there are still many people in Australia who are resistant to the large-scale immigration of Chinese and Asians to Australia, especially some supporters of the White Australia Policy, who spare no effort to criticize the government in some news media.

   Unlike other Western governments, which are often influenced by the voices of the bottom people, the Australian government often ignores the voices of the bottom layers. The elected candidates can make promises before they come to power, but after they sit in the seat, the governance is another scene.

  For the development of the Northern Territory, Australia has made a lot of efforts this year, and even invested a lot of money to build railways at all costs to improve the transportation problems in the Northern Territory, so that the Yang consortium can invest more money in the Northern Territory.

As the development of the Northern Territory continues to deepen, a series of construction needs raw materials, which are continuously transported from other parts of Australia to the Northern Territory. The development of the Northern Territory has really driven the development of Australia's overall economy. The Australian government does not want its own side. As soon as it tasted the sweetness, it was destroyed by a group of ignorant people.

As an isolated island in the ocean, Australia is adjacent to Asia, but it truly belongs to the Western camp. The island country wanted to leave Asia and join Europe in the early years. Although it was unsuccessful, it has been supported and controlled by the United States since World War II. The island country is very clear about the meaning of its existence. and effect.

   As an enclave in the early days of the British Empire, Australia was a place where British prisoners were exiled. For a long time, Australia was obediently following behind its master’s ass, and it was rare to make up its own mind.

   With the gradual decline of the United Kingdom, although Australia has more and more things to make up its mind, it has lost the biggest support for its livelihood.

  Australia is rich in resources and has a small population. It is like a long-term worker who guards a warehouse in a landlord's family. Suddenly one day the landlord's family falls and he can't control the long-term workers under his hand.

   In the end, the long-term workers held a peace meeting with the landlord of their own family, and everyone peacefully divided up the family property.

  It can be said that Australia is a long-term worker. It sits on the entire continent and has a large grain depot. In the early stage, it can be said that there is no need to worry about food and clothing.

   As the saying goes, 'Sit and eat the mountain'.

   Jinshan and Yinshan also have time to play with flowers,

Since the 1970s, a long-term worker in Australia who has no worries about food and clothing, found that the grain in his granary was getting less and less, so he thought about rolling up his sleeves and working hard, but looked around him , Australia was suddenly embarrassed.

  Because the Australian government suddenly found itself facing a multiple-choice question at this time.

   What multiple choice questions?

   That is to choose the surname Xi

   or surname Dong

   Choose to lean towards the east or continue to follow the west.

   This is a bit like the same problem faced by the early island nation after the Meiji Restoration became a foreign power.

   However, the situation in Australia is a bit different from that of the island countries. The island countries looked down on the poor neighbors around them because they were powerful at that time, so they wanted to mix with the westerners in the rich areas and make friends with the rich people.

   Australia is a proper Western camp, and Western countries have never denied this.

   But, Australia is too far from the western base, and the neighbors around it are all Asian countries. Once something happens, the western countries can't help at all.

  The most terrible thing is that it is not as strong as an island country, its population is not as large as an island country, and the backing behind it is getting weaker and weaker, and even raw materials are not imported from its little brother.

   Therefore, for a long time, Australia was very confused. Historically, the lost "Western Bridgehead" was used to describe Australia.

  Since the 1970s, the Australian government finally figured out that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, so they began to abolish the White Australia Policy and began to take into account the development of Asian immigrants in Australia.

   Its Prime Minister Whitlam once mentioned at the United Nations General Assembly that "We want to build Australia into an independent country in the Asia-Pacific region that values ​​tolerance and cooperation, and is anti-discrimination."

  Under the guidance of Tram's ideas, Australia, far from the "barriers" of the Cold War, began its first contact with Asia.

   Established relations with the inland and Vietnam successively, and actively repaired the rift with the hostile neighbor Indonesia.

   After Whitlam, the current Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke also follows the policy philosophy of the former Australian Prime Minister, but unlike the previous Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke has made bigger and more active actions in this regard.

  Australia's two prime ministers have actively promoted strengthening relations with Asian countries, largely due to Australia's economic recession.

   Since the end of World War II, in order to restore their own economies, European countries have engaged in tariff bastions to prevent the flow of goods from other countries into their own countries, which has caused a greater impact on the Australian economy.

   However, compared with the tariff bastions of European countries, the biggest impact on the Australian economy was the dismantling of the British Commonwealth trading system in the 1970s.

   In 1961 and 1967, the United Kingdom applied to join the European Economic Community twice, but both were rejected. The biggest obstacle in the negotiation was the federal preferential system.

  The Commonwealth System of Preferences is an economic and trade agreement between member countries of the Commonwealth system. This trade agreement allows each member of the Commonwealth to enjoy preferential treatment for each other.

  In the Commonwealth trade system, Australia, which is rich in resources, naturally belongs to the benefited party in the preferential agreement. Before the Commonwealth preferential system is lifted, there is no need to worry about Australia’s resource exports.

  There are so many members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and Australia’s resources are not worried about no market, but with the lifting of the Commonwealth’s preferential system, Australia lost its preferential treatment, and exports were immediately hit.

   Europe and the United States are far from each other, and there is no preferential country treatment. The price advantage of Australia's raw material exports disappeared all of a sudden.

The    economic downturn has shaken Australia's west-centric trade, forcing Australia to find new markets desperately.

   It was precisely in the 1960s and 1970s that the Asian economy began to emerge. Especially in the 1970s, the four regions of the Bay, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea developed rapidly.

   The largest industrial revolution in human history broke out in Asia, and the demand for raw materials continued to increase, which made Australia, which has always been dominated by Europe, finally look back at its poor neighbors.

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