Australian reports quoted Australian government sources saying that China and Australia agreed to arrange Australian Minister of Trade Farrel and the Minister of Commerce of China Wang Wentao.Xinhua News Agency confirmed the news on Thursday.
Senior China -Australia Trade officials will recently hold a three -year meeting in a three -year manner, which may be further broken for bilateral economic and trade relations.Australian government officials call on China to cancel trade barriers to Australian exports.
Scholars of interviewed scholars evaluated that Sino -Australian relations constantly recovering is one of the important highlights of China's new diplomacy; although the two countries have continued to disagree on geopolitics and human rights since the beginning of the year, they areVery pragmatic.China may promote mutual opening up with the Australian economic market, as an important leverage that does not allow Australia to continue to fall into the United States.
Australian Assistant Trading Minister Aels on Thursday (January 19) at the Swiss World Economic Forum on Davos Switzerland, with the Deputy Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen, the Ministry of Commerce, 45 minutes.
Australians reported that Australian government sources said that the talks were "effective" and "constructive". The two sides agreed to arrange Australian Minister of Trade Farrell and the Minister of Commerce of China Wang Wentao to conduct video conferences.
Xinhua News Agency confirmed on Thursday that Wang Wentao and Farrell will have the first dialogue for more than three years through the video in the near future to release the latest signals to seek further improvement of bilateral relations.
Sino -Australian relations have been cooled rapidly in the past four years; in April 2020, then Australian Prime Minister Morrison called on the international investigation of crown diseases in China, which caused the relationship between the two countries to fall into the bottom of the valley.
China has implemented trade restrictions on Australia's coal and cotton, etc. since May 2020, and also levies high -dumping taxes on Australia's barley and wine, which has caused Australia to formally appeal to the WTO.The WTO is expected to be a trade dispute between China -Australia earlier this year.
Farrell once again said again that he hopes to resolve problems with China through dialogue and discussion, rather than arbitration by the WTO.
Zhu Feng, dean of the School of International Relations of Nanjing University, analyzed in an interview with the United Morning Post that China Australia currently "poses a very pragmatic attitude" in restoring economic and trade relations.He expects that as China has liberalized epidemic prevention and its market economy is normalized, "Sino -Australian economic and trade relations will definitely rebound strongly from the three years of the epidemic."
After the Sino -Australian leader in November last year, Australian Foreign Minister Huang Yingxian went to China to break the ice in December. It was the first senior Australian official in China to visit China in more than three years.China -Australia reached a new Australian coal import agreement this month, but other measures continued to hinder the trade between the two countries, including lobster and wine.
Els's spokesman issued a statement saying that in the talks on Thursday, Alice called for eliminating trade barriers affecting Australia's exports to China.Australian Agricultural Minister Vatt revealed in a radio interview on Friday that Australia has not received a formal notice from China to terminate the trade ban, "We still have a long way to go."
China -Australia has recently disagreed on geopolitics, human rights and other issues.Regarding Australian Chinese writer Yang Hengjun's spy case, Australian Foreign Minister Huang Yingxian issued a statement on Thursday and was deeply concerned about the situation.The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Wang Wenbin urged Australia on the same day and shall not interfere with the case of Chinese judicial organs in accordance with the law in any form.
Australia announced that it will buy 40 "Black Eagle" military helicopters from the United States.Wang Wenbin said that defense and security cooperation between any country should be conducive to regional peace and stability, "not targeting third parties or damage to third parties."
Scholars: By strengthening Sino -Australian relations, it can prevent excessive tendency to the United States
Zhu Feng judged that Australia is currently “definitely inclined to the United States” on the issue of Indo -Pacific security strategy, but China can open up the economic market with Australian society through strengthening the Australian social market.An important leverage ".
Zhu Feng said that with Qin Gang as the new foreign minister, China's diplomacy began to reflect, and he would face great changes in the international strategic environment with "new weather, new actions, and new methods".He believes that Sino -Australian relations will be a "very important highlight" for China's new diplomacy. I believe that China Australia will not make human rights issues hot and affect bilateral relations.
