Australia's fortune cookie?

By Daniel Flitton
Updated December 6 2012 - 11:13am, first published 10:24am
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam meets with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1973.
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam meets with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing in 1973.

Forty years ago this month, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam made the controversial decision to recognise China's communist government. Has the relationship prospered?

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