PNN – Reuters news agency wrote in a report: In the second administration of US President Donald Trump, the Canberra government is forced to walk on the edge of trade with China on one side and military cooperation with the US on the other.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, Reuters news agency added in the mentioned report: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albans is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Brazil today. Â This is while Beijing sees Australia as a business model during Trump’s presidency, despite the fact that Canberra has close military and defense ties with Washington against China.
According to this report, the meeting between the Prime Minister of Australia and the President of China on the sidelines of the G20 meeting will take place exactly one year after Albans’ trip to Beijing. In that meeting, it ended years of political conflict between the parties and led to the opening of Australian exports to China worth billions of dollars and the creation of jobs in this country.
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Now, analysts say that the next American government is trying to impose heavy tariffs against Beijing, which is in conflict with the policies of maintaining the stability of Australia’s economic relations with China, especially in the field of exports of iron ore, gas and agricultural products.
Reuters added in its report: On the other hand, Caroline Kennedy, the American ambassador in Canberra, described Australia as the most magnificent friend of the United States and highlighted the increase in military and defense cooperation between the two countries.
He emphasized that the United States plans to develop its cooperation in the vital mineral sector of Australia in order to block China’s economic bottleneck in this sector.
But the Prime Minister of Australia, avoiding the trade conflict between the US and China, yesterday in response to reporters about the possibility of the Trump administration imposing trade tariffs against China, said that he will not interfere in the relations between Washington and Beijing.