Chinese as people are not respected in Australia or in any western civilization because of their thought process.
Its all or nothing for that culture, they will lie cheat and stay down till are weak, then will retaliate using deception as soon as they get a sliver of power.
There is no concept of honor in that culture. That is why we see this retaliation happening against chinese way of thinking across the board in developed countries.
The only friends china has are corrupt failed states, and that says a lot about their global standing in the civilized world.