Dr Keith Suter, Managing Director of the Global Directions Think Tank, about the Morrison government setting up "positive" talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for the second time in two months. 

 

This follows tensions that emerged after the Prime Minister declared China should be treated as a "newly-developed" nation and lose some of its special treatment at the World Trade Organisation.

 

A delegation organised by the Chinese embassy this week accused Australia of being "a pioneer of global anti-China sentiment" and said any country following Australia's lead would be viewed as "extremely unfriendly" by Beijing.