Amid signs of a thaw in relations, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says China must drop its trade bans if it is serious.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has refused to release his response to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, but has publicly reiterated his demand that Beijingagainst Australia if it was serious about improving the bilateral relationship.
“There have been prime ministers who reveal text messages and correspondence, I am not one of them. I responded appropriately,” he said.discussion between Defence Minister Richard Marles and his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe, “It is China that has changed the nature of the relationship. They are our major trading partner. So, it is important for Australia’s economy and for jobs here that we have a relationship going forward.
While Chinese state media said the meeting was the first step towards repairing relations, there was no sign China was willing to relax the tariffs on Australian goods.“Australia has suffered during this period of frozen China-Australia relations, and the business community and the common people are all complaining,” a report in the“Because it turns out that China-Australia relations were well-developed in the past 10 years, and Australia had taken a lot of money from China.
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