{"id":45522,"date":"2022-06-18T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/18\/thaw-or-cold-war-will-labor-succeed-in-unfreezing-australia-china-relations"},"modified":"2022-06-18T05:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:00:22","slug":"thaw-or-cold-war-will-labor-succeed-in-unfreezing-australia-china-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45522","title":{"rendered":"Thaw or cold war: will Labor succeed in unfreezing Australia-China relations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new government has struck a different tone with Beijing but the same difficult problems \u2013 from trade to the Indo-Pacific \u2013 remain<\/p>\n<p>After the end of a two-year diplomatic freeze between China and Australia, the new Albanese government is embarking on a grand experiment: is a different tone enough to get the relationship on a better footing?<\/p>\n<p>Gone are Peter Dutton\u2019s blunt declarations that Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/26\/mistakes-of-the-1930s-peter-dutton-ramps-up-china-rhetoric-as-keating-calls-him-a-dangerous-personality\">wants to turn countries like Australia into tributary states<\/a>, as is the prediction Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/nov\/22\/penny-wong-decries-morrison-governments-position-on-taiwan-as-most-dangerous-election-tactic-in-australian-history\">would almost certainly join any US-led military action<\/a> to defend Taiwan against invasion.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/18\/thaw-or-cold-war-will-labor-succeed-in-unfreezing-australia-china-relations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new government has struck a different tone with Beijing but the same difficult problems \u2013 from trade to the Indo-Pacific \u2013 remainAfter the end of a two-year diplomatic freeze between China and Australia, the new Albanese government is embarking on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"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":[43,324,50,1767],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-penny-wong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45522","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45522\/revisions\/45523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}