Chinese labelled Australia "xenophobic" when we banned travel from there, china knew what they were doing.

"Beijing, predictably, put on a show of anger. The Chinese embassy gave Canberra a stern lecture, called Australia "xenophobic" and demanded compensation for Chinese students who were inconvenienced.

The Australian government realised that something was badly wrong with the World Health Organisation, or WHO, around this time. The Geneva-based UN organisation kept insisting that there was no cause for countries to ban travel from China. Many nations, Britain and Canada among them, were trusting enough to take its advice."

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