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Xiao Qian, Beijing’s new ambassador in Canberra, visited parliament house last week to meet with Labor’s ​​shadow minister for foreign affairs and discuss his country’s basic positions on the China-Australia relations.

Embassy official Hua Chunying said the efforts of the Quad nations were to drive a wedge between other regional countries and China. 

The Australia-France defence partnership has been growing rapidly and is increasingly characterised by points of convergence, not divergence. It may surprise many that shared historical, geographical and cultural points set the scene for closer cooperation.

Here is Martin Parkinson’s speech delivered to the Asia Briefing Live Economy and Business Session in Sydney on 8 August. It is clear that the