Anthony Albanese on Wednesday became the third Australian prime minister after Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser to visit the Great Wall of China. However, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ economic reform roundtable approaches in August, the PM should consider the lessons of former US president Richard Nixon’s historic 1972 trip to Communist China.
Nixon’s groundbreaking visit, made at the height of Cold War paranoia, was something that only a Republican leader and staunch anti-communist could have done without triggering a “red scare” in America.
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