Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at [email protected] or filling in this Google form. Submissions should not exceed 400 words, and must include your full name and address, plus a phone number for verification.I refer to the letter, “On Ukraine and Gaza, the most powerful nation on Earth should be fairer” (March 15). Israel is not the aggressor.

My country, the US, has given billions of dollars to Gaza in the past decades. Much of it has gone to Hamas, which seems to care little about ordinary Palestinians. Hamas has used the residents of Gaza as human shields, building tunnels beneath hospitals, schools and in residential areas.

My friend in California is a Palestinian-American – and very much not pro-Israel – whose father came directly from Gaza. He fled because he’s Christian, and Christians have been persecuted there, and because the Palestinian Authority, then followed by Hamas, did nothing to improve the economic plight of the people.

My hypocritical government supports Ukraine (as do I) without the same demands for “proportionate” military response in counter-attacks against Russia, where civilians are in the direct line of fire and not forewarned of impending attacks.

I coached several Ukrainians in my 4.5 years in China who attest to the corruption of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his associates. They only support him because of the invasion by Russia.

I loved my experience of teaching and coaching in mainland China and in Hong Kong. The Chinese people are awesome. But the Chinese government’s close ties with not only Russia but also states such as Iran, North Korea and Cuba, which have been designated state sponsors of terrorism by the US government, and its engagement with the Taliban in Afghanistan, is repulsive to me and to many Americans.

No country or system of government is perfect. All are imperfect, including my own. Yet some states are overtly choosing alliances with dangerous countries.

Pat Evans, Fresno, United States

Australian opposition must end its anti-China approach

Australia’s opposition has been stirring a storm in a tea cup over former prime minister Paul Keating’s meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Is insinuating a sinister, if not traitorous, approach to China by Keating a prelude to an investigation to assess his propensity for being geopolitically considerate towards a country that just happens to be our cultural and ideological opposite?

One wonders if Simon Birmingham, the opposition’s foreign affairs spokesman, would object so strongly if Keating were invited to a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Australia’s wine and iron ore exporters’ just-revived prospects (“China-Australia wine trade barriers seen falling as foreign minister Wang Yi confirms trip down under”, March 14) risk being derailed again by the Coalition’s “antagonise China” approach. Opposition leader Peter Dutton and company are urged to limit their comments to nuclear power generation for Australian households, and to refrain from causing another China-Australia trade meltdown.

Joseph Ting, Brisbane, Australia

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