Albanese, Xi declare trade will go on despite global chaos of Trump's tariffs
Beijing: Australia will keep its vital trading relationship with China separate from its ties to the US, Anthony Albanese has declared, after he took his government’s concern with how little notice it received of a live-firing exercise in the Tasman Sea in February to President Xi Jinping in a meeting on Tuesday.
A flotilla of Chinese navy ships circumnavigated Australia in February and used live ammunition in a drill that forced flights between Sydney and New Zealand to divert at short notice in an incident that complied with international law but Canberra saw as provocative.
Speaking to reporters on a day when security guards confronted Australian reporters and photographers, including from this masthead, were denied entry to capture Albanese and Xi shaking hands, said the trade relationships Australia had with China and the US were unrelated.
“Our relationship with China is very separate from that,” Albanese said. “China as our major trading partner, the destination for more than one in four of our export dollars comes here. The trade with the United States is important, but it’s less than 5 per cent.”
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/australian-journalists-confronted-by-security-on-albanese-s-china-trip-20250715-p5mezw.html
Trump will never even acknowledge a world without himself at it's centre. I'm glad that countries can put his childish garbage aside and remain allies despite his adolescent need to create havoc where none existed before.