Will Wong’s visit make China less of a threat? Foreign Affairs Correspondent Matthew Knott and North Asia Correspondent Eryk Bagshaw debate the issues arising from Penny Wong’s mission.
At Albanese’s press conference following the meeting, I asked him whether Xi had raised any complaints about the AUKUS pact and he said no, the subject had not come up at all. This is despite Chinese state media and the Chinese Foreign Ministry regularly fulminating against AUKUS as a threat to regional peace and security.
China has celebrated dozens of 50th anniversaries over the past year because it was admitted to the United Nations in October 1971, allowing countries to ratify diplomatic relations over the next year.
Penny Wong is very hard-nosed and realistic about what Australia can and can not achieve when it comes to influencing other countries, especially one as big and powerful as China.So far human rights groups have been disappointed by the Albanese’ government’s relatively muted approach to human rights abuses in China.
Australia’s diplomatic relationship with Taiwan has been muddling along in recent months. There has been lots of rhetoric but few concrete developments under either Labor or the Coalition.Notably, Trade Minister Don Farrell has yet to visit Australia’s seventh largest trading partner and neither has the speaker of the House of Representatives or the president of the Senate.
He said only nation states were eligible to join the pact, suggesting Australia would not support Taiwan’s bid.
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