Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said that Australia will not accept Chinese demands to change policy in order to restart bilateral talks.
Marisa Payne on Thursday said, “We've been advised by China that they will only engage in high-level dialogue if we meet certain conditions. Australia places no conditions on dialogue. We can't meet (their) conditions now.”
Relations with China shook after Australia banned Huawei from its nascent 5G broadband networking in 2018. Canberra last year also called for an independent investigation over the origins of coronavirus pandemic which was first reported in central China.
China in return imposed tariffs on Australian commodities which included wine and barley and limited imports of Australian beef, coal and grapes.
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