Study abroad industry is the pillar industry of Australia at present. It is also Australia`s third largest export industry.
Has created an economic value of 30 billion Australian dollars for Australia!
With the growing trend of studying abroad, more students from all over the world will come to Australia to seek better education in the future.
Among them, Chinese students account for the vast majority.
However, I do not know when Australia began to come out of a "threat theory".
In the tone, racial discrimination has once again spread across schools-slogans that discriminate against Chinese students are all over the campus.
The president of the University of New South Wales, Ian Jacob, and David Gonski co-signed an article in the Australian newspaper entitled "Australia must welcome Chinese students."
This article describes the importance of international students, and highly recognizes the important role they play in promoting Sino-Australian relations, and reminds Australians not to panic because of the "threat theory".
China`s strength and rise is an objective fact, the article said, and Australia`s goverment acknowledged it in a recent White Paper on diplomacy. However, the authorities believe that as China continues to grow, friction and contradictions between Australia and China are almost inevitable.
The article points out that this is a complex diplomatic game, Australia needs to recognize the opportunities and risks, and explore the differences in values. Data show that international education has become Australia`s third-largest export industry.
However, in the Foreign Affairs White Paper, the study abroad industry has obviously not been given due attention by the goverment.
The foreign minister even said in an interview that some Chinese students undermined the ideological independence of Australian universities and damaged Australia`s reputation in international education.
It even influenced public opinion and attacked Australian university teachers.
After the rhetoric was exaggerated, the comments against Chinese students began to become sensational.
However, the Australian keypad ignored the economic value, employment value, and, most important, the international value of promoting the friendly development of the relations between the two countries.
Since the 1980s, the first group of Chinese students to Australia, in the economic level, for Australian universities to inject a large amount of money!
Second, opened the door to cultural communication between China and Australia.
International students have become the best link to communicate between the two countries-promote the cultural integration between China and Australia, the exchange of social ideas.
Earlier, the UNSW delegation visited Shanghai and Beijing, China, and learned that many of its graduates had made some achievements in finance, management, arts, manufacturing and academia.
Subsequently, as more and more Chinese students went to Australia, and as China`s reform and opening-up continued, a large number of Chinese enterprises chose to cooperate with Australian universities. Created unimaginable economic and social values.
Of course, major Australian institutions, including UNSW, carefully select their partners and do due diligence as required by the federal goverment to meet Australia`s defence and trade requirements.
The article points out that it is important to emphasize the attention of Australian universities to each student, including 108260 Chinese students in Australia. We should be proud of Chinese students and be committed to providing them with a safe, high-quality and fulfilling learning experience to help Chinese students improve their English and promote their positive interaction with students from different regions and countries.
Through the release of goodwill to Chinese students, the establishment of a closer relationship, so that they can be more integrated into the Australian society, to realize the truth, goodness and beauty of Australian society, has a huge role that can not be ignored.
The threat theory is wrong and will put Australia in a different direction.
It`s a heart-to-heart attack, and that`s what makes the Sino-Australian relations more and more contradictory.
We should learn to respect the developing China as well as the overseas Chinese students who come to Australia to study.
At the same time, China`s rise will not abate with China-Australia relations.
What do you think of that?
