Australia’s foreign minister said her meeting with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi was an important first step in restoring relations between the two countries.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has described her meeting with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi as an important first step inSenator Wong raised the issues of trade sanctions and Australians detained in China during her meeting with Mr Wang on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Bali on Friday.
“As you would expect I raised a number of issues in relation to bilateral, regional and consular issues.”writer Yang Hengjun“Obviously we discussed trade blockages that exist, and that remains the government’s position, those trade blockages should be removed and we have said so publicly and our private position reflects that.”Senator Wong said stabilising the relationship would take time, effort, work and nuance, and noted that China’s differences with Australia were well known.
“We will co-operate with China, but we will stand for Australian values when we must,” Mr Albanese told reporters at a joint press conference in Sydney alongside New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.“When we engage in the region, there aren’t strings attached. We engage because that is the right thing to do by lifting up the development of our neighbours, we have a responsibility to do that.”
It comes after China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands and seeks similar deals with other Pacific nations.
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