Interesting read with some good points that we should all take heed of.

with regard to the Chinese middle class, the fact it cannot get more political freedom, and probably wont for a very long time if the CCP manages to maintain its iron gip, is a good enough reason for the West to maintain and uphold its own determination to pressure China to reform, despite our own contradictions

Take the virus out of the equation. Even so, China is an authoritarian, racist, genocidal regime that engages in slave labour. Dealing with them is like dealing with Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Add in the virus, and China lied, people died.

The only moral failing of the Australian government was allowing Australia to become dependent on them in the first place. That crosses party lines.

It is my view as an independent sociologist that the title 'Unleashing the White Australia virus' is totally racist.

Does anybody else see it as racist?

I think the author needs to offer an explanation as to why he thinks it necessary to post an obviously racist title.

This article could be from the PRC's Australian Ambassador ...

Does anybody else see it as racist
Mr Opinion,
I felt it was an opportunistic exploitation of racism with hindsight wrongs !

".... he continues to encourage Chinese Australians to stand up and take a fearless stance in the national affairs of the homeland of future generations of Chinese Australians". (Chek Ling's self-description).

What was that Mr. Opinion was saying about our 'Chinese future'?

The Chinese Communist Party treats Chinese citizens with appalling brutality, killing thousands of them annually, and it thinks that it can treat the rest of the world the same way. We are not allowed to know what ordinary Chinese think, but we know with certainty that the people presuming to speak for them are blatantly aggressive racists who don't even have the ability to hide the fact. Just look at the creature they call a 'diplomat' here in their embassy. He doesn't miss an opportunity to insult and goad us.

The "100 year(s) of avaricious greed and remorseless oppression" that is the real thorn in the side of China is when the Chinese ruling class found that the Middle Kingdom was not in the middle of the world, and they will never forgive the West for revealing that to them.

The Boxer Rebellion made a good movie, '55 Days At Peking'; recently remastered, it should be compulsory viewing for Western politicians to see how to deal with China now.

The White Australia policy is always dragged out when enemies of the West feel the need to whine. It's never even mentioned by most people these days. But, right or wrong, we wouldn't have the problems we do today if the policy was still in place. 'Nice' doesn't work with the Communist Party of China, and people like Big Daddy Xi, as the oppressed Chinese are supposed to think of the latest Red Emperor, Xi Jinping