My thesis on Mao [1968] attributed to the Chinese Communist Party a large debt by Australia in that without Mao's 4th and 8th armies containing the Japanese during the Second World War in north China, the Japanese would have been able to more effectively achieve their war aim to control Australia's mineral wealth.
We Australians owe China and our relationship is a lot stronger than many realise. Our second largest ethnic group is Chinese and our history is integrated far more deeply than it is with America.
China daily
18 Feb 2011
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Australia fears letting go of the ideal of freedom our version of democracy affords us. China's institutional control is overt, the US covert, placating the masses with the illusion of individuality and choice.
Fears of 'the yellow plague' and the spreading red invasion still permeate our consciousness, childhood words and images ingrained deeper than what we consider opinion.
Most fear is a reaction to the disruption of comfort, the most fear is of change.
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