The big moment that revealed the difference between Allan and Dan Andrews

Victoria schools and universities are not less hell to bring more Chinese students – “I will not be deterred!” He declared his first day in Beijing – but his emphasis is different on the tone and the field. It brings warmth for a difficult and cold -growing engagement.

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At the beginning of the trip, the Chinese strategy, published in Beijing, focuses less than the previous release published in 2016, when Andrews Xi positions for a slice to get a slice of massive belt and road infrastructure.

It values ​​cultural and community changes and the need to shape our way Chinese Australians interact with birth countries. Emphasizes the human connection above trade targets.

Allan’s travel party includes a parliamentary secretary and four Backbench deputies who choose the number of voters’ voters, not because of any expertise in Chinese affairs.

In this regard, Paul Hamer (Box Hill), Matt Fregon (Ashwood), John Mullaly (Glen Waverley), Meng Hang Tak (Clarinda) and Mathew Hilakari (Point Cook) have an obvious political dividend for re -election expectations, but there is a real desire between the 427.000 Vicatsian.

This is part of the feedback of the Victoria government from the Chinese Victorians while filling the Chinese strategy.

Allan received the personal ownership of the strategy and has plenty of inside.

The background of his hometown Bendigo and the Golden Hurry Flow of Chinese immigrants are well known in Victoria, but Allan tells Beijing to Nanjing this week to Shanghai. Instead of selling Victoria University, Victoria University, it shows the benefits of shared history, language and cultural appreciation.

On Wednesday, during a stance in Shanghai, Allan expanded his Chinese thought. “At a time when there may be many concerns about global instability, you get stability in this way – by having a common cultural understanding built on language and friendship, and then creating future economic opportunities from these relationships,” he says.

“We should never be processed in these relationships. We must deepen these relationships. We must respect these relationships.”

Allan’s meeting with Beijing Minister Huai Jinpeng is an example on the first day of his trip. This was the highest level of Victoria Prime Minister’s direct participation with China’s ruling communist party. The meeting was painted and a little harsh-Allan until he talked about his 13-year-old daughter learned Mandarin at school.

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According to a source, the mood changed at that moment. Huai Jinpeng, a 62 -year -old, responsible for the education of 300 million young people, started a passionate speech on the importance of language in opening the cultural understanding. Allan left the meeting with a newly signed agreement and a personal connection with the student exchanges and a member of the CCP Central Committee member.

Allan’s Andrews has no dominance of state politics, but people are much better.

Very little understands the importance of education for Victoria’s relationship with China better than Guosheng Yang Chen. When Allan came to Nanjing on a sweltering day to visit the Langya Yolu Primary School, a member of the Jiangsu-Victoria Sister School Change program, Chen was patiently waiting at the entrance. About 40 years ago, he was a member of Victoria’s first education mission to Jiangsu.

Chen was known as the UNESCO literary city in Nanjing, China’s former capital of China to work by the state government to work in Victoria. He stayed in Melbourne, an expert in international education and became a loyal advocate for multilingual learning. The 76-year-old continues to invest tightly to strengthen the Chinese-Avustralian relationship.

“Through education, you tell your children to look beyond your national border to understand your neighboring countries, or he says. “Strategically, it is very important that these two countries understand each other and find a common ground.”

China Hawks will enter Allan’s approach to China, like Andrews’ contentious decisions to sign the agreement on the arches and the road. It is clear that this week is on a different way from traveling with Allan to its predecessor. It is unlikely to enrich it in terms of retirement, but it can help young Victorians better understand a definite country to look big throughout their lives.

Chip Le Grand is the state political editor.

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