[Manthink]

To be fair, it wasn't anti Chinese per se but xenophobia. Of course it didn't help that China at that time was not an admired country.
Singapore today has an overwhelming Han majority. Singapore is today what it is because I lived through the Lky years and together with those of my generation and the pap government we made it. Today I draw a line between Singaporans who are Hans and born here and Chinese who are also Hans. Am I anti Chinese? Nope.

The 'White Australia' policy can be traced to the 1850s..long before both SG and China became a republic.
The +100 years difference between both events, were driven by the same  "xenophobia" (in your own words) and were instituted against ethnic Chinese, regardless they were born in China or not. Hence I find that strange that you consider White Australia' policy as "fair" and "wasn't anti-Chinese"...



"The origins of the 'White Australia' policy can be traced to the 1850s. White miners' resentment towards industrious Chinese diggers culminated in violence on the Buckland River in Victoria, and at Lambing Flat (now Young) in New South Wales. The governments of these two colonies introduced restrictions on Chinese immigration..."

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/...13_1en.pdf