Both were featured on The New York Times’s Chinese-language website — which translates about a dozen of our most interesting stories every day, along with special features like Word of the Day — and as a result, this newsletter now includes several New York Times readers in Australia who prefer to respond in Chinese.

So as the year comes to an end (I’ll be on hiatus until early January), I’m turning this week’s installment over to all of you, our insightful readers, the newly arrived and the well established.

Thank you. For reading. For contributing. For subscribing.

Here are those (lightly edited) comments. And if you have tips for stories related to the Australia-China relationship, please email us: nytaustralia@nytimes.com.

See you next year.

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‘Australia’s Dance Macabre’

They say it takes two to tango and this is Australia’s dance macabre. Our politicians are blinded by the money the Chinese pump into our economy. In their eagerness to sell the country, from iron ore to real estate, they appear to forget about those of us at home who may not be able to survive in our own country.

Then there’s the slight issue of China’s obvious expansionist ambitions.

Last but not least, could I write this response in China without disappearing into a government run re-education program?

Wake up Australia. We don’t need the Chinese with their communist version of a new age capitalism inspired by a poorly translated novel by Ayn Rand ruining our economy and government. We can do that ourselves.

— Lon Eisenweger

‘Potential +1 Moments’

If Americans or Australians approach China with a sense of fear and suspicion, the direction of things will only go one way — down.