ANALYSIS: The prime minister is attempting a highwire balancing act with foreign policy talks, but at least on trade it seems to be working.
and foreign policy positions dissembled the Canberra-Beijing diplomatic open line.
China watcher and University of New South Wales academic Jennifer Hsu notes it was during a trip to the Philippines in August that Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles restated support for the 2016 decision made at The Hague “which to a great extent invalidated China’s claim to almost all of the South China Sea."
The dividend of this effort is immense, the government calculating it’s whittled down the trade barriers from more than $20 billion down to $2.5 billion since being elected.Barley, coal and timber exports have all been restoredBeyond trade, Albanese confirmed he raised the high-profile cases of indefinitely detained Australians Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun and the low-profile cases of three people on drugs charges he did not name who are on death row in China.
But the most challenging part of the highwire act is the security relationship and the military jockeying in the region.China provocatively released a ten-dash line map, claiming most of the South China Sea and territory on the Indian border, sparking a furore from affected countries and states.
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