A Taiwanese diplomat says it is “healthy” for Australia to have relations with both China and Taiwan, despite Beijing’s efforts to marginalise the island.
One of Taiwan’s top diplomats in Australia has urged the Albanese government to support its application to join the mega trans-Pacific free trade deal, amid Beijing’s attempts to marginalise the self-ruled democracy on the global stage.
China’s ambassador to Australia last week lashed the visit by a bipartisan delegation of federal MPs to Taiwan, and a visit later this month by former prime minister Scott Morrison,Mr Wu said Taiwan understood Chinese markets were important to Australian producers, “but we don’t think Taiwan relations and also Chinese relations ... are necessarily 100 per cent correlated, because we think that when you are stabilising relations with China, you can also engage with Taiwan”.
China is opposed to Taiwan being involved in international agreements and bodies. Its One China policy regards Taiwan as a rogue province. With Canada to assume the chair of the CPTPP commission next year, Mr Wu said Taiwan would like members to form a working group to examine its application.
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