CHINA-AUSTRALIA: SENIOR EXECUTIVES OF PRIVATE AUSTRALIAN COMPANIES AND CHINESE SOES TO MEET FOR FIRST TIME AFTER YEARS ON DECEMBER 13
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A report of December 10 disclosed that top Chinese executives will meet with their Australian counterparts for the first time in years as business leaders attempt to find a way through a hostile diplomatic environment that has hit Australia with $20 billion in trade strikes. The high-level private meeting between half-a-dozen Chinese representatives from state-owned energy and resources firms including Sinosteel, the China National Petroleum Corporation, Chinalco and their Australian counterparts in BHP, Fortescue and Rio Tinto on December 13 is the first sign that Beijing has authorised its representatives to re-engage with major Australian firms.
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