Newly appointed United States Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy has pulled a reporter into line shortly after touching down in Sydney.
The 64-year-old was asked about China and why it had taken so long for the Biden Administration to appoint an ambassador as she spoke briefly to the media upon arrival on Friday morning.
The Channel 10 reporter then posed whether the US and Australian relationship had been demoted because there had been not ambassador posted Down Under for 549 days. “There is so much excitement in Washington DC about this relationship, this partnership not only the bilateral relationship but our regional work together and really our work as global partners,” she told reporters on Friday.
Ms Kennedy added there was a “really palpable” excitement in Washington DC about the possibilities for the bilateral relationship to counter China’s influence in the Pacific.
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