Australia's China Problem | Wendover Productions
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Australia's China Problem | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202616 min
  • Documentary
  • Politics

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This video is made possible by Shopify, the platform behind Wendover and thousands of others' e-commerce businesses. Among the many former British colonies that have grown into some of the world's most developed countries, Australia is unique.

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Specifically, its economy has developed into something unlike that of any other, and a big player in the story of that economy is China—for better or worse. To understand China's role in Australia and the problem this poses down under, one has to start in a very different place—the United States.

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If it were not for the US, Australia might not exist. Prior to the American Revolutionary War, Britain would primarily send their prisoners to the American colonies when sentenced to transportation. Once the colonies became the independent country of the United States, Britain needed

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