China’s advice to world leaders: Be like Albanese

Australia’s Prime Minister has a huge fan … and it’s not who you would expect. See why China’s advice to world leaders is to be like Anthony Albanese.

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Anthony Albanese has received a glowing endorsement from China ahead of a meeting between the Australian PM and President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of two important diplomatic summits.

Ahead of the APEC and G20 summits in Peru and Brazil, where Mr Albanese is expected to meet with the Chinese president, the nation’s leading newspaper described the Australian leader as a “useful reference for those struggling to strike” a balance between China and the US.

In an editorial the China Daily, an English language masthead owned by the Chinese Communist Party, Mr Albanese was praised for balancing the diplomatic ties to Washington with the trade relationship with China.

“Australia’s ties with China deteriorated when the previous Australian government fell under Washington’s anti-China spell,” the editorial tread in a swipe to former PM Scott Morrison.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with China's President Xi Jinping. Picture: Twitter

“But Canberra has woken up to the significance of those ties under the Albanese government and set about repairing them,”

“It is also evident that economic ties with China and the US do not have to be mutually exclusive.”

PU.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Pictures: Getty Images via AFP

The China Daily referenced Mr Albanese’s decision to tell US President-elect Donald Trump that “it’s in Australia’s interest to engage with China as our major source of trade”.

Mr Trump has threatened to impose 60 per cent tariffs on China — Australia’s biggest trade partner.

The editorial urged both countries to work together because they have “every reason to be partners of mutual trust and mutual achievement”.

“China and Australia should follow the trend of the times, proceed from the common interests of the two countries, pursue a bilateral relationship that features treating each other on an equal footing, seeking common ground while shelving differences and mutually beneficial co-operation, and push forward the China-Australia comprehensive strategic partnership.”