First Australian Prime Minister visit to China in 7 years since 2016
China’s Ministry of Commerce “Amicably resolves dispute between two countries”
Amid the warm atmosphere between China and Australia, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit China from the 4th to the 7th of next month.
On the 22nd, the Australian Prime Minister’s Office announced Prime Minister Albany’s visit to China in a statement. This is the first visit to China by an Australian prime minister in seven years since 2016.
During his visit to China, Prime Minister Albany plans to hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Chang in Beijing and attend an international trade expo in Shanghai.
“It is important to stabilize our relationship with China, which serves both our countries’ interests and the interests of the world,” Albanage said.
Meanwhile, China’s Ministry of Commerce also said in a statement, “The two countries conducted friendly negotiations over disputes over wine and wind towers, and reached an amicable joint agreement.”
China’s Ministry of Commerce also emphasized that “China and Australia are each other’s important trading partners,” adding, “We will work in the same direction as Australia and jointly promote the stable and healthy development of the economic and trade relations between the two countries.”
In 2018, Australia followed the United States in excluding Chinese telecommunications equipment company Huawei from its 5G network, worsening the relationship between the two countries.
Diplomatic channels between the two countries were suspended in May 2021 as China suspended imports of Australian products such as wine, coal, barley, beef, wine, and lobster and imposed tariffs on Australia.
China imposed tariffs of up to 218% on Australian wine and retaliatory tariffs on barley and other products.
However, with Prime Minister Albanese taking office in May last year, relations between the two countries entered a phase of reconciliation.
In particular, the mood for improved relations became clearer on the 20th when the Australian federal government decided not to cancel the contract to lease Darwin Port to the Chinese company Landbridge for 99 years.
Source: Donga
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