Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will travel to China this week for a trade mission, his first since the state's Belt and Road agreements were torn up and against a backdrop of rising security tensions.
abc.net.au/news/victorian-premier-daniel-andrews-planning-china-visit/102146718Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews will travel to China this week for a trade mission, his first since the state's Belt and Road agreements were torn up.
It will make him the first Australian politician to visit China since the AUKUS submarine deal was inked amid rising security tensions. "It's a quick visit, but a really important opportunity for us to impress upon all of our partners in China … that Melbourne is open, Victoria's open, that the Chinese economy and Chinese community, business, our partners, are very, very important to us," he said.
The federal government scrapped four deals between Victoria and foreign nations in 2021 under Commonwealth powers which had just been introduced.
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