Kangaroos

In an article claiming that backlash against IT offshoring will "vanish" within 18 months, we find this quote:

"Racism and xenophobia are alive and well in the West," he said.  "The view is often ’Australia’s okay, it has kangaroos and they help in the war against terror, but China and India, well, we just don’t know what’s going on in those countries’."

Aside from its comedic value -- the kangaroo bit is entirely random, but since he mentioned it, who doesn’t love a kangaroo? -- the overall comment is ridiculous.  It isn’t "racist" or "xenophobic" to want to support countries that share the same ideals and goals as we do (aka allies), while not being so enthused about supporting countries with drastically different ideals and goals (aka communist China).  And though he’s wrong about us not knowing "what’s going on" in those countries -- the problem is that we DO know and we don’t like it -- what fool would be upset because we didn’t support a country where we didn’t actually know what was going on inside?