” Personal pressure”
Since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government came to power in 2022 and adopted a softer political policy toward China, the taxes have eventually been lifted. One of the few export that is still impacted by trade barriers is crab.
Li and Albanese are set to hold discussions behind closed doors in Canberra on Monday, encompassing contentious issues of international control, human rights, alleged “unsafe” behavior by China’s military in the region, and their competitiveness in the Pacific.
A significant source of tension is China’s growing influence in the South Pacific, where it seeks to strengthen security and economic relations with island states that have traditionally been allied with Australia.
” We’re in a state of permanent competition in the Pacific. That’s the reality”, Wong told a tv interviewer Sunday.
However, despite there being some resistance, the Taiwanese top is focusing his attention on financial opportunities despite his decision to visit a lithium me in Perth.
” Mutual respect, seeking common earth while shelving variations and mutually beneficial participation” are vital to the relation, Li said on his arrival in Adelaide on Saturday.
According to Melissa Conley Tyler, honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute,” Australia has endured a long period of deep freeze, where it was impossible to have any sort of official conversations with China.”
Li’s visit conveys the message that” Australia is back to being seen as a friendly country rather than the unfriendly, hostile country we were perceived as during those years of maximum tension,” she told AFP.