Australia’s China threat obsessions are not new.

November 18, 2019

Australia’s China threat obsessions are not new. Remember the Vietnam War? Obsessions then were far worse: ‘It (the Vietnam War) must be seen as part of a thrust by Communist China between the Indian and Pacific Oceans.’ (Robert Menzies, April 29, 1965). ‘..there is not the slightest doubt that the North Vietnamese are the puppets of  China…’(Defence Minister, Allen Fairhall, March, 1966) ‘The fear of China is the most dominant element in much that happens in Asia, and the fear is well founded.’ (Foreign Minister, Paul Hasluck, October, 1964)