Australia once again displays misplaced pride and prejudice

Criticism of China's Belt and Road projects in Pacific island countries by a high-ranking Australian official once again lays bare the deep running bias against China harbored by some politicians in Australia.

In an interview with The Australian newspaper published on Wednesday, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Australia's minister for international development and the Pacific, accused China of providing loans to Pacific nations on unfavorable terms and constructing "useless buildings" and "roads to nowhere" in the region.

Her irresponsible comments were, as China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said, "full of ignorance and prejudice".