Beijing has congratulated Anthony Albanese on becoming Australia’s 31st prime minister, ending a diplomatic freeze of over two years between the two countries.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Beijing was willing to work with the new Australian Labor government, according to state-run media Xinhua.
In his message to the new prime minister, Li said the stable development of Australia-China relations was in the interest of both sides.
He noted that 2022 marked the 50th year anniversary of the establishment of Australia-China diplomatic relations by the Labor government under former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
Li wrote the Whitlam government had made the “right choice” in 1972 to break ties with Taipei and formally recognise the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing….