Australia’s LNP denial of the nation’s racism is a denial of our Europhile history. Let’s remind ourselves of the shame buried beneath our racist denials

and is perhaps not far distant, when the European observer will look around to see the globe girdled with a continuous zone of the black and yellow races, no longer too weak for aggression or under tutelage, but independent, or practically so, in government, monopolising the trade of their own regions, and circumscribing the industry of the European.

Invited to ‘international conferences, and welcomed as allies in the quarrels of the civilised world’, the rise of China as a global power meant that white man’s ‘pride of place’ would be ‘humiliated’.

Source: The ‘China Threat’: Can we escape the historical legacy of Anti-Chinese Racism? – Pearls and Irritations