Australia is open to further diplomatic meetings with Beijing, with Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles indicating the door was still open to more discussions.
Marles said there was a long way to go before regular communication with China restarted, but noted that resumption of ministerial talks was an important first step.
The defence minister spoke with his Chinese counterpart General Wei Fenghe at a recent international forum in Singapore, the first such meeting after an almost three-year freeze.
“There was a desire in the meeting that we had, on both sides, to have the relationship put in a better place,” Marles told ABC Radio on June 14….