Albanese must put mutual challenges on the table in Beijing
Australia and China cannot maintain their standards of living without doing business with each other. But that is going to be tested by climate change.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will land in Beijing this week on the 50th anniversary of Gough Whitlam becoming the first Australian prime minister to visit China in November 1973, after establishing diplomatic relations with that country the previous year.
From the beginning, diplomatic relations were based on “mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit and peaceful coexistence”. These six principles are anchors of the postwar international order and should continue to guide what has become a very significant relationship between the two countries over the intervening years.
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Shiro Armstrong is a professor and director of the Australia–Japan Research Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.
Peter Drysdale is emeritus professor of economics and head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and East Asia Forum at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.
