China and Australia are trading partners but there has been some tension in the last few years as Australia has joined the US and Japan in pushing back on China’s attempts to dominate the region. So it was a big deal when China’s Premier Li Qiang made a four day visit to Australia intended as a kind of goodwill tour which included an announcement that China would change out some existing pandas at an Australian zoo.
The new pandas will replace the zoo’s existing pandas, named Wang Wang and Fu Ni, who are “friendly messengers of China-Australia relations,” Mr Li Said.
Mr Li’s arrival in Australia on a four-day trip is the first by a Chinese leader in seven years, marking improving ties between the two countries…
…bilateral relations hit a low point when the former Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, called for an international inquiry in 2020 into the origins of the…
