From a Chinese perspective of recent history, the West does not look good.
In 1919, the French President Georges Clemenceau described Wellington Koo, a member of the Chinese delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, as ‘a young Chinese cat’. Billy Hughes, the Australian Prime Minister, on the other hand, earned the description from President Wilson as a ‘pestiferous varmint’.
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