CHINA-AUSTRALIA: CHINESE PREMIER LI KEQIANG'S VISIT

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's week-long visit to Australia and New Zealand was decided after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Australia soon after US President-elect Trump's telephone conversation with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen. Li Keqiang's main objective is to promote trade and investment, particularly through President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative, which China hopes to align with Australia's northern development plan. Li Keqiang will also try and contrast Chinese stability with Trump, and argue for a favoured balance of global relations: one in which China does not face a unified front of US allies. China's Foreign Ministry will push a policy formulation that could resonate: that China and Australia are (and should be) in a 'common circle of friends'. This policy offers no attempt to divide Australia and the US, but presents an option where Australia also does not need to choose between the US and China.





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