Why Albanese and Xi Jinping didn’t bring up Trump, US relations during their China visit

Donald Trump’s name was not mentioned by Anthony Albane or Xi Jinping during the China tour of the Prime Minister this week. Not because they need. The noise from Washington echoed everywhere in the capitals.

A few countries are in a position to decisively benefit from the changing global order, such as China, where the President of the world is a decline, Donald Trump creates friction with the US allies, including Australia and Japan.

The visit of Albania, which ended on Friday, was the peak of the “stability” policy on China after a period of freezing under the Morrison government of the Labor Party.

He returned to the relationship with Australia’s largest trade partner. Analysts, Albanian’s stance against China and the last emphasis on the independence of the US Alliance pointed to a new stage of Australian diplomacy. Say stabilization plus.

The Australian delegation moved from east to west for six days. Albanian spread the green steel sector that has emerged in the coming years that can help Australia’s export of basic iron ore. In Beijing, a rare lunch feast with Xi watched more official bilateral meetings with the authoritarian leader shaping China in his image. The same evening, dinner with Premier Li Qiang. Later in the week, he admire the prime minister’s symbolic images on the large wall and the pandal in Western China. In both cases, Albania was withdrawing the steps of Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke’s labor symbols, who had unique ties with Chinese leaders.

Xi pointed out that Trump felt a great opportunity for world leaders and invited them to Beijing. However, according to Lowy Institute’s senior friend Richard McGregor, he does not invite most of them to lunch ”.

The Albanian camp believes that the week exceeds expectations. On the first day, the Pentagon was shadowed with the possibility of Pentagon, using the Aukus submarine Pact to connect Australia to any potential conflict on Taiwan. And the Federal Opposition criticized the lack of great concrete agreements or assurances from China in order not to repeat the Lacivli live fire exercises on the coast of Australia in February.

However, a series of memorandums on trade and tourism, as well as in the midnight oil of Albania Pub rock favorites fry the duck and Chinese covers and Paul Kelly is exposed to frying Chinese covers unexpectedly in the large hall.

On Wednesday, the Chengdu airport (a 38 -degree afternoon, in the afternoon, the air service said that he felt closer to 48), the Albanians were awe of the Night Chinese city, which was described by some expatriates as “China’s response to Melbourne”.

“China sees itself as confident, C Chengdu said on Thursday. “I have impressed me that there is an innovative architecture than any city I am around the world. New, dynamic, creative.”

A Australian official who participated in the planning of the trip, which does not want to be determined, said that the Chinese government’s more friendly tone towards Australia is invaluable for businesses in China, which recently found a basis in China.

The dissolution in relations has allowed the trade to continue in areas such as beef and barley hit by Chinese trade strikes under the previous coalition government, but the Labor Party hopes that the two -way trade could return further. “The upper part is very large and the signal sent to the Chinese system flowing into consumers and jobs,” he said.

For example, first-class Med-Tech companies, Australia’s Cochlear and Remed, identified large areas of growth by touching the Chinese middle class as it became more health consciousness.

Both of them have an operation in Chengdu, which has the world’s largest general hospital. The hearing aid company Cochlear is ready to grab 10 million customers. Approximately 170 million Chinese suffers from sleep apnea, which helps to re -process.

But growth is not once in China. According to estimates compiled by Reuters, eight percent of the GDP fluctuations annually led to a growth of less than 5 percent. This, which has a population of China, still means that millions of people will gain new pleasures for foreign exports every year, but the average income is lower than the West.

But Albanian’s visit shone a spotlight on China’s duality. While walking in the country’s neon illumination and home -filled cities, restriction systems and surveillance systems were common. CCTV cameras are abundant: A man in Beijing can be seen using a remote -controlled camera circulating like a toy pet. Careful security guards in both uniform and simple clothes were always present. Reporters traveling with Albanian caressed on most buildings, including hotels.

Lowy Institute Chinese expert McGregor, Albanian’s appearance of Beijing through Washington gives the appearance of the preferred (not yet to visit Trump in the current period) will leave the government open to criticism, he said.

The question of what a balance between Washington and Beijing would balance, and the journalists’ interrogations dominated the Albanian during his visit.

Former Interior Secretary and China Hawk Mike Pezullo said that Albanian is trying to revive the glorious days of the bilateral relationship with China.

“On the other hand [hand]We saw the beginning of the biggest peace time with the US at home with the beginning of military exercise [the Talisman Sabre war game]Aiming to improve our approach to a war against China. “

This Masthead, a conservative minister to become a minister of lobby after reporting the rules of behavior in 2023 after the role of the role of the house in the house of Parzzullo, Australia’s relationship with China is a deep tension, he said.

“This contradiction in the heart of the Australian policy is sustainable unless it rises to the conflict, Pz said Pimzullo.

“For this reason, we have given ourselves hostage to the great power war that has been protected or a great power war that leads us to a abyss that we will be unprepared.”

Albanian is not the first Australian leader accused of participating in a trip to China. Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was called by some conservatives when he visited the Great Wall in 1976, and Whitlam was attacked to emphasize the United States for the recognition of President Mao’s People’s Republic.

James Curran, a foreign policy observer at the University of Sydney, has emerged in a new Australian foreign policy strategy, where Australia is open to both the US and China. “The Prime Minister is now talking about improving the relationship, so that there will be a subtle departure from the strict formulas of the first period and clearly said that differences would not allow the relationship to define the relationship.” “He wants to force the points of tension while growing trade ties.”

James Laurencson, a more arrogant expert who runs the Australian-China Relations Institute, said that Australia went to China in the war on Taiwan between Trump’s tariffs and the emergence of views in the Pentagon, and Australia may have to treat Australia with similar doubts to China.

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In the meantime, McGregor, Australia and Japan, such as countries such as Washington to show that there are other options than the United States, said they were thinking of closer ties with Beijing.

“Both do not like Trump, but according to the polls, the US alliance still supports the alliance. Nobody wants to divorce from America, this is necessary for regional stability.

“But Trump forces everyone to think about the unpretentious one.”

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