‘Comprehensive strategic partnership’: Australia - China relationship on the ‘right track’

Chinese Premier Li Qiang is in Canberra today and spoke about affirming the “commitment” to viewing the Australia-China relationship as a “comprehensive strategic partnership”. “In less than one year, Prime Minister Albanese and I have met multiple times and exchanged visits to each other's country,” Mr Li said in a media conference on Monday. “This shows that both countries attach great importance to our relationship and that this relationship is on the right track for steady improvement and development. “We affirmed our commitment to defining this relationship as a comprehensive strategic partnership. “We also had a candid exchange of views of some differences and disagreements and agreed to properly manage them in a manner befitting our comprehensive strategic partnership.”