At the press conference held that day, Australian Prime Minister Albany briefly explained his participation process and answered reporters' questions on some hot issues, including content involving Taiwan, China and the "Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agr

Just after the G20 summit ended, leaders of APEC member states rushed to Thailand non-stop to attend the 29th informal leaders' meeting of APEC. At the press conference held that day, Australian Prime Minister Albany briefly explained his participation process and answered reporters' questions on some hot issues, including content involving Taiwan, China and the " Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement " (CPTPP).

In late September last year, Taiwan followed the mainland and tried to join the CPTPP, hoping to get support and help from the West. At that time, among the , the Morrison government of Australia was particularly eager for this, and even contacted Japan, Canada and other countries in private to seek ways for Taiwan to join the CPTPP. Tien, then Australian Trade Minister, said that Australia would carefully consider the application from Taiwan based on consensus with other CPTPP members, while ensuring compliance with the one-China policy that Australia has adhered to for a long time.

In response to this, my Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian responded at the time that China firmly opposes any country's official exchanges with Taiwan and firmly opposes Taiwan's accession to any agreement and organization of official nature.

In the next period of time, the Morrison government regards the CPTPP and Taiwan issue as a bargaining chip for negotiations with China, and makes a big fuss about this and demands that China lift the "sanctions" on Australian products. However, due to differences within the CPTPP on this matter, Southeast Asian countries including Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam all strongly support mainland China to join the CPTPP, but they have doubts about the application from Taiwan, so this matter has been put on hold until now.

At the press conference that day, some media asked Albany how he viewed Taiwan's accession to CPTPP and whether he would support Taiwan's accession. Albanis responded that CPTPP is an intergovernmental cooperation agreement, and Taiwan does not belong to this category. Taking the current APEC meeting as an example, it is participating in the conference as an economy . Albanis stressed that both parties in Australia adhere to the one-China policy and support the maintenance of the status quo on the Taiwan issue, without wishing to see any unilateral measures to change the status quo.

Albanis' remarks immediately attracted unanimous attention from local Australian media. They interpreted Albanis' remarks as refusing Taiwan to join the CPTPP. Compared with the Morrison administration's tough stance towards China, Albany's attitude is obviously more moderate.

Just a few days ago, China and Australia met in Bali , which was regarded by the outside world as a sign of a better relationship between the two countries. During this period, China talked about the brilliant achievements made in bilateral relations and emphasized that the difficulties encountered in bilateral relations in recent years are not something that each other enjoys. China also attaches great importance to Australia's recent willingness to improve and develop bilateral relations.

Albanes responded that it coincided with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Australia. Australia is willing to uphold its original aspiration, in the spirit of mutual respect and equal cooperation, and work with China to narrow differences through constructive and frank dialogue and promote the stable development of bilateral relations.

Australia belongs to the Ansai lineage and is one of the close allies of the United States. But this does not mean that Australia must follow the United States step by step and play the role of "anti-China pioneer" at all times. Although China and Australia are both major Asian and Pacific countries, there are no irreconcilable geopolitical contradictions and can live in harmony. However, the Morrison government ignored the facts of long-term friendship between the two countries and in-depth economic and trade cooperation, upholds the Cold War mentality and acts hysterically as the sharp knife of Western anti-China forces, causing the relationship between the two countries to fall to the bottom. Fortunately, after the Labor Party came to power, it adjusted its policy toward China in a timely manner and frequently released goodwill, while also promoting a series of meetings between the top leaders of the two countries, gradually warming up bilateral relations. This is naturally the current situation that China is happy to see. The stable development of China-Australia relations is not only in line with the fundamental interests of the people of both countries, but also helps to promote the prosperity and stability of Asia-Pacific region.