{"id":14804,"date":"2025-07-15T08:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14804"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:13:34","slug":"australias-pm-seeks-to-balance-trade-and-security-tensions-in-xi-jinping-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=14804","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s PM seeks to balance trade and security tensions in Xi Jinping meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=57e10c1f-a031-47a4-8997-ceb8f12f57de\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Australia\u2019s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has met President Xi Jinping in Beijing as he seeks to reaffirm ties with China amid global trade turmoil and pressure from the US over security commitments to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes in the middle of a six-day state visit to China, which includes stops in Shanghai and Chengdu, where Albanese is aiming to strengthen economic ties in areas including steel production and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>For China, the objective is to capitalise on uncertainty generated by President Donald Trump\u2019s erratic policies to try to draw Australia closer on issues such as trade \u2014 a strategy that mirrors Beijing\u2019s approach with other US allies such as Europe and the UK. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that has marked Beijing\u2019s external relationships this year is that they\u2019ve been trying to improve ties,\u201d said Ian Chong, associate professor at the National University of Singapore. \u201cThey\u2019ve been doing more outreach than they did previously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting on Tuesday was the fourth between Xi and Albanese and the first since the Labor leader was re-elected in a landslide last year on a surge of opposition to Trump. Albanese has not met his US counterpart since he was first elected prime minister in 2022 but said that he expects to do so before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian leader deflected questions before the meeting about whether China would offer itself as an alternative partner if tensions with the US over defence spending continued to intensify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t draw alternatives. What I want to see is a stable and secure region. I think that is in the interests of everyone in the Indo-Pacific,\u201d he said in Shanghai on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest accomplishments of Albanese\u2019s first term was a successful effort to repair economic ties with China, easing a two-year stand-off that saw Beijing impose trade blocks on Australian goods including wine, coal, lobsters and barley.<\/p>\n<p>China is Australia\u2019s most important trading partner, accounting for about a third of the latter\u2019s exports, led by iron ore. Two-way trade in goods and services between the countries reached A$312bn (US$204bn) in 2024. China\u2019s ambassador to Australia pre-empted the trip by suggesting closer co-operation between the countries in areas including artificial intelligence and clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese has been accompanied on the trip by executives from leading miners including Rio Tinto, BHP and Fortescue as well as Macquarie Group and the Australian arm of HSBC, and will hold a business roundtable on Tuesday. He will also meet China\u2019s premier Li Qiang, Beijing\u2019s number two official, who visited Australia last year.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the countries\u2019 commercial relationship has been complicated by a series of security issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times reported on Saturday that the Pentagon has been pressuring Australia and Japan to clarify what role they would play in the event that China invaded Taiwan, over which Beijing claims sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has also reviewed the Aukus security pact, a Biden-era agreement that will enable Canberra to procure nuclear-powered submarines and that is opposed by Beijing, the FT reported last month.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump review of Aukus would be welcomed by China, pointing to tensions in a pillar of the security relationship between the US and Australia, said university professor Chong. \u201cAukus may end up to be less of a concern for them than originally was the case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, if Albanese was too receptive to China\u2019s outreach, he could risk provoking hawks within the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an easy line to toe for Australia, which has its own concerns with [China]. But it has reasons to co-operate as well,\u201d said Chong. \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy trip for Albanese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Albanese told reporters in Shanghai that Australia did not support \u201cany unilateral action\u201d on Taiwan. \u201cWe have a clear position and we have been consistent about that\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009we don\u2019t want any change in the status quo,\u201d he said in response to a question about the FT report.<\/p>\n<p>Euan Graham, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said that the timing of the trip was \u201cpotentially embarrassing\u201d, with Albanese \u201ctrying to drum up business\u201d in China at the same time that his country was hosting military exercises with the US and UK.<\/p>\n<p>The trip also comes after Chinese naval forces in February conducted live fire exercises off the coast of Australia, forcing flights to be rerouted.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese\u2019s pledge during last year\u2019s election campaign to return the port in Darwin, which was sold to a Chinese company almost a decade ago, to domestic ownership is expected to prove another source of tension.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian leader stood firm on his commitment on the port, which is located near a US military base in the north of the country, saying he was \u201cvery clear\u201d about his government\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia has a multi-layered relationship, as it must, with China,\u201d Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest told reporters in Shanghai. There is a risk that \u201csecurity becomes a distraction\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/57e10c1f-a031-47a4-8997-ceb8f12f57de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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