In light of the Wuhan virus pandemic I think that the position of large numbers of Chinese in Australia is rapidly becoming untenable.

It is still early days in this crisis and we are already seeing daily reports of physical and verbal abuse and attacks against Chinese in Australia. I think that as a group the Chinese will be the people who will suffer the most from the aftermath of the pandemic and its consequential economic downturn.

So, what will happen to the Chinese of Australia over next 12 months while we are all sitting around waiting for someone to develop the vaccine and where will they be after that?

Mr Opinion,

that is another interesting question.

for the first time, Australia is getting large minority with a background representing the greatest ever threat to western primacy.

i think it will work out because most people of all nations are decent people.

however, Australia will have to be alert to potential dangers from authoritarian China trying to influence Chinese Australians.

when i at fiji, local workers told me they did not trust Chinese and that they liked aussies and new zealanders.
Chris Lewis,
I have had plenty of personal experience with that scenario.
If an American would ask them, they'd say they like Americans, if a Brit, a German, an Italian, a Scandinavian etc. would ask them the same question they'd receive the same answer.
I have been told by several older PNG people how their parents always spoke of the good times in New Guinea under the Germans.
It's perfectly normal for the people of the Pacific Islands to agree with the visitor & please them.
It's part of a very widespread culture which most Westerners could never understand.

yes, individual.

but they also bagged the chinese, and i did not prompt them to do so.

so, we as westerners, can promote a conversation.

another thing, the fijians also told me that the chinese had little regard for being told where to sit at the restaurants as they were the ones that would just where the best view was, albeit i saw them often get moved along to wait their turn.

Chris,

Yes, individual has heaps of experience dealing with and understanding Melanesians and their attitudes to outsiders and he can tell you from his own experience that they would always give an individual the same answer. Isn't individual just so lucky to be an individual?