Paul Keating may have been the first Australian PM to visit China “and remain level-headed throughout”. Anthony Albanese will crave a similar tick of approval.
followed the script. His formula for managing relations has been long pre-packaged. Australia will “co-operate with China where we can” and “disagree where we must”, he said on arrival.
Prime ministers often land in Shanghai first. As former ambassador to China Ric Smith recalled, this is often deliberate, because Shanghai is the “take-off town … where you got the sense and smell of where China is going”. Even so, there was a historical foundation to what was taking place. Howard implored Australian journalists – and his hosts – to not underestimate that “in the past, Australia has economically stood by China, in the commodity trade in particular, when political relations haven’t been all that flash”. The wool and wheat trades stretched back decades, and “we have kept that consistency, and it’s something the Chinese remember”.That history was trashed in recent years.
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