Why can't Australia become a world power?

It monopolizes the territory of a continent, which is larger than India, only a little smaller than the legendary Republic of Korea, but its per capita GDP is more than 2, dollars higher than that of South Korea. It is Australia, which has always been an embarrassing existence, with a large territory, high per capita GDP and a small population. However, there has been no sense of existence in the world, and no one has really looked at it except itself. Why can't Australia, a big country, become a world power?

The factors that a world power should have are: geographical land area and population, political influence, economic influence, scientific and technological influence and cultural influence, and at the same time, it is necessary to have certain military strength, with which it is possible to become a world power.

Look at the three superpowers in history, and you can compare what Australia lacks.

British Empire: The empire with the most extensive ruling power and the largest population in the world history evolved, and it can project its military power around the world. It also has considerable influence on Canada, Australia and other big countries through the Commonwealth, and shares the global sea power with the United States.

the United States: the fourth largest country in the world, the largest country in the world economy, and can project its military power in a considerable part of the world, which has considerable influence on its allies all over the world and shares the global sea power with the British Empire.

Soviet Union: the largest country in the world, with military projection across Eurasia and considerable influence in Eastern Europe and East Asia. Despite its disintegration, Russia has inherited most of its main influence and remains a world power to be reckoned with.

You can also see some shortcomings about Australia. Although Australia occupies a geographical advantage and monopolizes a continent, its land area is the guarantee to become a world power, but its population is insufficient. In 216, the population was only 24 million, with a territorial area of 7,617,93 square kilometers, which is really very small, which is almost the same as that of a big city. Such a population size is difficult to produce worldwide influence. It is the lack of population that leads to the following problems, which directly affects industry, science and technology, culture, military, and so on, making Australia's influence limited.

Australia is an immigrant country and pursues multiculturalism. Australia's population is highly urbanized, and nearly half of its citizens live in Sydney and Melbourne. Many cities in the country have been rated as one of the most livable places in the world. Melbourne, its second largest city, has been rated as the most livable city in the world for many times. This kind of cultural influence is a culture influenced by other cultures, which has a short history and has no external influence. It is the cultural core for neighboring countries to form Australian characteristics. For example, East Asia and South Asia have their own cultural circles, but Australia does not.

For the economy, Australia has a certain influence. Australia is the most developed country in the southern hemisphere, the 12th largest economy in the world, the 4th largest exporter of agricultural products in the world, and the world's largest exporter of various minerals. It is called "the country sitting on a mine car". Australia is also the country with the largest number of sheep in the world and the largest export of wool, and is called "the country riding on the back of sheep".

However, although such an economy has become rich, it has no industrial manufacturing capacity of its own. It can only be regarded as an agricultural country, but Australia once had strong industrial capacity in history.

During World War II, Japan flew all the way to Australia from the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, and planes dropped bombs in Australia. Australia was Britain's own son at that time, but when Japan called, London was being rubbed on the ground by Germany, so how could we care about it?

Australians began to concentrate their power, tax revenue increased substantially, and a large amount of money was invested in the military industry. Automobile, metallurgy, chemical industry and other industrial sectors have all developed. To develop industry and protect ourselves. After the war, some military factories were turned into private enterprises. In 1948, the first Horton vehicle "48-215" rolled off the assembly line. Industry also has a certain scale.

In the 195s and 197s, Horton almost monopolized the Australian market, and exported to neighboring countries such as New Zealand, Southeast Asia and South Africa. During this period, the first goal of the rising Japanese automobile industry is to surpass Australia. It can be seen that the industrial base of Australia at that time was better than that of many countries.

When the economies of Europe and Japan began to recover in the 196s, Australia's mining industry and agricultural products exports could make money by lying down. If you have the opportunity to be a coal boss and a mine boss, who wants to be a manufacturing industry? Because of selling mines, Australia's social welfare is also quite high. When the welfare is high, people tend to be lazy. While labor costs are rising, the international competitiveness of Australian industrial products is not high.

In the 197s, the tariff on imported cars in Australia was generally above 5%, even so, Japanese cars were cheaper than Australian cars when they were sold to Australia. By the 198 s, Australia's industry was almost ruined, and the automobile industry relied entirely on government subsidies. However, after China's economic development, the Australian mining industry and agricultural products will be easier to sell. If the industry is abolished, it will be abolished!

At this time, Australia completely treated China as a big fool and raised the price of iron ore when it was in a bad mood. China's steel mills keep losing money, but the Australian economy has stepped onto a new stage. In 212, Australia's per capita GDP was US$ 68,, ranking first among countries with a population of 1 million.

The higher the GDP per capita, the higher the production cost. Every car produced by Horton, a subsidiary of GM, is $3,75 higher than the factory cost in Asia. Even though the Australian government subsidized it with money earned from Asian countries such as China, Horton still lost money and finally had to close down. Such an Australia with a certain industrial base has been completely abolished. This lesson is to be learned by many countries in the world.

Rich Australians are very fond of playing. Although Australia has not become a world power, it has become a sports power, hosting many global sports events all the year round. Australia has hosted the Summer Olympics twice, and is the perennial host country of Formula One racing and Australian Open every year.

In the southern hemisphere, Australia's influence on the surrounding areas is also limited. Except for New Zealand, which is smaller than itself, it is the savage country of Papua New Guinea. If it is a continent, it is estimated that it still has influence on the eggplant in Antarctica, while Australia is an island in Asia, and its importance is far less important than that of the island countries in Southeast Asia.

The ranking of the world's top ten military powers is the ranking of the world's military strength in 28 by the international arms control and disarmament organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The ranking is: the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, India, North Korea, Israel and South Korea. It can also be seen here that Australia's military basically has no influence.

Today, Australia is an agricultural country. Its heavy industry is underdeveloped. Secondly, its scientific and technological strength is not very strong. Thirdly, it still belongs to the Commonwealth, which determines that it cannot become a world power (especially the first one). There are also some external factors: although the United States has a good relationship with Australia, it will never allow any country to pose a threat to it, whether it is capitalism or socialism, as long as it poses a threat to its global hegemony.