HOW BIG WAS THE WHITLAM GOVERNMENTS KOW-TOW TO PEKING?
“Australia has agreed to 23 of 29 demands by China as the price of becoming friends with Peking says a professor. The Federal Government has not yet announced terms of the pact it signed with Peking on December 21.” – The Sun, Melbourne, January 12th. Professor Marchant is associate professor of Chinese history at the University of West Australia, has been studying Chinese cultural history for about 18 years and has published several books on the subject. His latest is Mainland China Today. In 1971 he became the first Australian to be appointed Associate Visiting Professor of Taiwan’s research institute of Modern History in Taipeh. After studying the Peking reports of what has transpired between Canberra and Peking, Professor Marchant alleges that Australia agreed to the following as part of the agreement with Red China: * Attack the U.S. for its Vietnam bombing and condemn it for its involvement in the war. * Condemn and apply sanctions to Rhodesia, South Africa and Portugal. * Agreed
