@billybongo; China makes no claim to being a social democracy but its Communist government has transformed it from a poverty stricken, war-ravaged, peasant based and subsistence country into what it is today.
The Chinese people are strategic, long term thinkers; albeit now having to come to terms with some of the same $Greed problems that plague countries like Australia - those in addition to issues of power, brutality and corruption which plague Communist regimes.
The challenge for countries like Australia which we embraced in the early 1970s is how to go about engaging with China without surrendering our own democratic beliefs and future aspirations. WIN-WIN produces much better outcomes than LOSE-LOSE and WIN-LOSE.
Until 2013 and Tony Abbott's disastrous decision to terminate the ABC's role in delivering information services throughout China Australia was doing a great job of assisting China to transition away from its status as a brutal Communist regime.
The provision of higher education to Chinese people and the opening of Australian businesses as well as the rise of tourism between Australia and China have been crucial to assisting China's evolution.
Morrison's brazen and intentional denigration, humiliation and abuse of everything Chinese has already proven counter-productive!
