Xenophobia looks set to return

摘要

BUT WAY BACK in December 1972, when the newly elected government of then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam decided to end Australia's hostility towards communist China, most Australians didn't think too much about what to them at the time was an alien culture and a politically dangerous country. In those days, China made the news from time to time, but it certainly wasn't on everyone's lips in the same way as Japan and the US.