First Australian minister to visit Beijing in three years raised sensitive issues, declaring region wants China and the US to manage tension
Wong thanked Wang for his “personal contribution to the stabilisation of the relationship between our two countries this year”.He said the trip showed the Australian government “attaches importance to, and is positive about, upholding improving and developing China Australia relations, which we highly appreciate”.
Wang said China and Australia had “highly complementary economic structures” with “no historical grievance or fundamental conflicts of interests”. Wednesday’s talks were expected to follow up points of agreement from the meeting between China’s president, Xi Jinping, and the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, in Bali last month.“President Xi has written me a very warm letter congratulating Australia on the 50 year anniversary, in response to correspondence that I sent to President Xi,” Albanese said.
In an interview, the Australian ambassador to China, Graham Fletcher, said China had “learned that Australia has a sense of itself and a national interest” during the difficulties of the past few years.
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