{"id":42336,"date":"2022-03-11T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/penny-wong-says-better-relationship-with-china-possible-if-coalition-stops-playing-politics"},"modified":"2022-03-11T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T16:30:09","slug":"penny-wong-says-better-relationship-with-china-possible-if-coalition-stops-playing-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42336","title":{"rendered":"Penny Wong says better relationship with China possible if Coalition stops \u2018playing politics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor would not take \u2018a backward step\u2019 on China disagreements, Wong says, after foreign minister meets new Chinese ambassador<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labor\u2019s foreign affairs spokesperson, Penny Wong, says it may be possible for Australia to achieve a diplomatic thaw with China despite the substantial differences between the two countries \u2013 if Scott Morrison abandons his \u201cdesperate\u201d pre-election weaponisation of national security.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, this week met China\u2019s new ambassador to Australia who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/feb\/24\/actively-develop-friendship-chinas-new-ambassador-to-australia-strikes-softer-tone\">made several overtures for dialogue<\/a> since arriving in Canberra in January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/11\/penny-wong-says-better-relationship-with-china-possible-if-coalition-stops-playing-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor would not take \u2018a backward step\u2019 on China disagreements, Wong says, after foreign minister meets new Chinese ambassadorFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingLabor\u2019s foreign &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,645,324,50,534,735,325,1767],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-coalition","category-labor-party","category-marise-payne","category-penny-wong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42337,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42336\/revisions\/42337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}