In a week where national security has dominated the airwaves leading up to Australia’s impending federal election, Asian community leaders have spoken out on the need for Australia-China relations to be central to how voters decide which party should win the next election. Chin Jin, chair of the Federation for a Democratic China, said bilateral ties would be a critical issue that the current Liberal-National Coalition government should be ready to tackle. “The current government’s approach to Australia-China relations is one of the strongest—most correct—but controversial foreign policies since the establishment of diplomatic relations (between Australia and China) in 1972,” he told The Epoch Times. While Feng Chongyi, associate professor of China studies at the University of Technology Sydney, said economic coercion and United Front influence activities was an ongoing concern in the ranks of the Australian government. “Australia-China relations have been complicated by the tension between the economic interdependence …