Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

As an early enclave of the British Empire, Australia was, to put it bluntly, the place where British prisoners were exiled. For a long time, Australia obediently followed its master's buttocks, and rarely made up its own mind.

With the gradual decline of the United Kingdom, although Australia has more and more decisions to make, it has lost the biggest reliance on its livelihood.

Australia is rich in resources and has a small population. It is like a long-term worker in a warehouse guarding a landlord’s family. Suddenly one day the landlord’s family disappears and he can’t control the long-term workers under him.

In the end, the long-term workers held a peace meeting with their landlords, and everyone divided up the family property in a friendly manner.

It is also possible to say that Australia is a long-term worker. Sitting on the entire continent and a large and proper grain depot, it can be said that there is no need to worry about food and clothing in the early stage.

As the saying goes, 'Sit and eat while the mountain is empty'.

Mountains of gold and silver also have time to play with flowers,

Since the 70s, this long-term worker in Australia, who has no worries about food and clothing, found that the food in his granary was getting less and less, so he wanted to roll up his sleeves and do a good job, but he looked around. Australia was suddenly embarrassed.

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

What multiple choice question?

That is to choose the surname West

Still surnamed Dong

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

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

However, the situation in Australia is somewhat different from that of the island countries. The island countries looked down on the poor neighbors around them when they were strong at the time, so they wanted to mix with the Westerners in the rich areas and make friends with the rich.

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

But, Australia is too far away from the Western base camp, and its neighbors are all Asian countries. Once something happens, Western countries can't help at all.

The most terrible point is that it is not as powerful as the island country, and its population is not as large as the island country.

Therefore, for a long time, Australia was very confused. Historically, the lost "Western Bridgehead" is what describes Australia.

Since the 70s, the Australian government finally figured out that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, so it abolished the White Australia policy and began to take into account the development of Asian immigrants in Australia.

Its prime minister, Whitlam, even once mentioned at the UN General Assembly that "we want to build Australia into an independent country in the Asia-Pacific region that values ​​tolerance and cooperation and resists discrimination."

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

It has successively established relations with inland countries and Vietnam, and actively repaired rifts with its hostile neighbor Indonesia.

Following Whitlam, the current Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke also follows the policy philosophy of the previous Australian Prime Minister, but unlike the previous Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke has taken greater and more active actions in this regard.

The two prime ministers of Australia have actively promoted the strengthening of 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 built tariff fortresses to prevent the flow of goods from other countries into their own countries, which has caused a great impact on the Australian economy.

However, compared with the tariff fortresses of European countries, Australia's economy suffered the most from the dismantling of the Commonwealth trading system in the 70s.

In [-] and [-], the United Kingdom applied twice to join the European Economic Community, but was rejected in the end. The biggest obstacle in the negotiations was the Federal System of Preferences.

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

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

With so many members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Australia's resources are not worried about being sold. However, with the removal of the Commonwealth's preferential system, Australia lost its preferential country treatment, and its exports were immediately affected.

Europe and the United States are far away, and there is no preferential country treatment, so Australia's raw material export price advantage disappears at once.

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

Just in the 70s and 70s, the Asian economy began to take the lead, especially in the [-]s, the economies of the four regions of Bay Bay, Xiangjiang, 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. This made Australia, which has always been dominated by Europe, finally look back at its poor neighbors.

Chapter 930 Negotiations End

Since the 70s, Australia began to gradually improve its relations with Asian countries. In the 80s, Australia began to participate in Asian affairs and actively promoted Asia-Pacific economic cooperation.

The reason why the Australian government tried its best to win over Yang Chen, and made so many concessions on the issue of Chinese immigration, was mainly to release an attitude to the outside world while using the Yang's consortium to develop the Northern Territory.

What attitude?

'Anti-discrimination' attitude

The early White Australia policy made Australia taste the real bitterness. Australia's early discrimination policy made many wealthy Asians and elites reluctant to immigrate to Australia.

There are many Asian immigrants in Australia, most of whom are low-level skilled immigrants. There are very few rich people and elites. Without investment from the rich and no elites to help Australia’s economic development, it is difficult to grow the economy by relying on the capital of the country alone.

Therefore, the Australian government has always wanted to eliminate the legacy of the White Australia Policy. While promoting Asia-Pacific economic cooperation, it is even more urgent to enhance its own economic strength.

Since the Asian economy entered the 80s, it has begun to rise rapidly, and the economies of various countries have gradually become closer to Australia, which has further prompted Australia's urgency to improve its own economy.

In recent years, the Yang consortium, together with HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank, has invested a total of US$200 billion in Australia, nearly half of which has been invested in the development of the Northern Territory.

As we all know, the actual investment cost and the economic benefits generated far exceed the actual investment cost.

The 200 billion US dollars jointly invested by the Yang consortium, HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank has brought direct economic benefits to Australia, at least reaching [-] billion. As for the wider social and economic benefits, it may not be intuitive in the short term, but the long-term The benefit is very terrifying.

It is precisely because Yang Chen has brought tangible benefits to Australia that the Australian government is so easy to speak, and Bob Hawke, the Prime Minister of Australia, will allow Yang Chen to build a new port and a new city.

After more than five hours of closed negotiations, the two parties finally discussed a plan that satisfied each other.

The focus of the discussions between the two parties was mainly on the governance of the Chinese in the Northern Territory and the immigration policy of the Chinese in the Northern Territory.

Regarding governance and immigration issues, Yang Chen focused on governance. In terms of immigration policy, the Australian government did not violate the previous agreement, but only added restrictions on subsequent individual immigration conditions.

The Chinese who have immigrated before, and their family members, are not restricted, and the Australian government has also imposed restrictions on the immigration of family members. They must be immediate relatives to be eligible for immigration.

Obviously, the Australian government also has sensible people, the seven aunts and eight aunts of the Chinese, sometimes counting seriously, you can count your life doubtful.

Therefore, the Australian government specially added the relationship of immediate family members, so as not to be taken advantage of by Yang Chen. At that time, 800 million people will be moved to the Northern Territory, and the Chinese will directly account for one-third of the total population of Australia, or even more.

In this regard, the Australian government is also somewhat concerned.

Regarding the follow-up immigration restrictions, Yang Chen did not strongly oppose the subsequent immigration restrictions. In his opinion, as long as the number of Chinese immigrants in the Northern Territory can reach 400 million, then in 30 or [-] years, it will not be a problem if the number doubles or triples. Difficult.

We must know that the Chinese people in this period, the idea of ​​having more children and more grandchildren and more blessings has not changed. The reason why the inland population of later generations is restricted is mainly because of the restriction of family planning.

In the era when family planning was not implemented, the big guys counted the number of uncles and aunts by themselves. I don’t need to say more about how the seven aunts and eight aunts came here.

Three or four is a small number, seven or eight is normal, and more than ten is indeed a bit much, most of them are between five and eight.

On the issue of immigration, Yang Chen gave in very simply, but in terms of governance, especially education, Yang Chen was unexpectedly tough.