The new government knows it needs to be careful not to learn the wrong lessons from recent years. | Anthony Galloway | ANALYSIS PrimeMinisterAlbanese auspol Quad
In a message sent to his office, China’s Premier Li Keqiang, ending a two-year diplomatic freeze between Canberra and Beijing at the political level.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong put in the hard work on China over the past 12 months.This is a welcome development. To not have had any high-level contact with Australia’s biggest trading partner for more than two years has not been ideal.For years, Australia mistakenly viewed China solely through the prism of the economic relationship.
But Australia was always prepared to play the long game. It didn’t want to restart leader-to-leader and minister-to-minister dialogue with Beijing if it meant trading away its core interests and values.According to diplomatic sources, the strategy was from the start to return to some kind of “new normal” or a “landing point” where diplomatic talks resume under a more honest relationship.This isn’t only an Australian story.
None of this is to say that the Morrison government at all times engaged in adept diplomacy. Marise Payne’s
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