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View all search resultsAustralia seeks end to China trade rows in Bali meeting
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet Wong on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Bali on Friday evening, the first meeting between foreign ministers of the major trading partners in three years.
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Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong gives a statement to the media as she arrives to attend the G20 Foreign Minister Meeting at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali on July 7, 2022.
(AFP/Johannes P. Christo )
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia's new government wants to stabilise its relationship with China but will not make any concessions on national interest when she meets her Chinese counterpart on Friday.
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet Wong on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Bali on Friday evening, the first meeting between foreign ministers of the major trading partners in three years.
"We all know we have our differences, there are challenges in the relationship. We believe engagement is needed to stabilise the relationship," Wong told reporters in Bali on Friday, quoted by Reuters.
China is Australia's largest trading partner and the biggest customer for its iron ore but relations have deteriorated in recent years.
China imposed trade sanctions on Australian products ranging from coal to seafood and wine in response to policies and decisions such as Australia's call for an investigation into the origins of COVID-19, its 5G network ban on Huawei, and foreign interference investigations.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor government, which came to power in May, has called on Beijing to drop its trade tariffs to improve relations.
China -- Australia's biggest trading partner -- imposed tariffs and disrupted more than a dozen key industries, including wine, barley and coal, as relations deteriorated in the past two years.
