Foreign minister confirms Australia’s willingness to engage with China but insists ‘coercive’ trade sanctions must be scrapped
, has signalled she is open to meeting her Chinese counterpart at a looming meeting of G20 foreign ministers, but she has warned any diplomatic thaw will require the removal of Beijing’s “coercive” trade sanctions against a variety of exports.on Wednesday to disclose whether or not arrangements were now in place for a conversation at the G20 meeting in Indonesia later this week – and if so, what her message would be to China’s Wang Yi.
Borrowing a locution from the Singaporean prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, Wong characterised the relationship between Australia andas “complex and consequential” and she said the new government in Canberra intended to remain “calm, considered and disciplined” in public pronouncements on the relationship.
She intimated there were a spectrum of views in the Indo-Pacific and south-east Asia about China’s rise, but the principle of respecting sovereignty was “shared by many countries in the region even if they have different views on other issues”.
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