China News Service, Beijing, May 6 (Reporter Zhang Su) The National Development and Reform Commission of China announced on the 6th that from now on, everything under the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue mechanism jointly led by the National Development and Reform Commission and relevant departments of the Australian Federal Government will be suspended indefinitely. activity.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin subsequently responded to inquiries at a regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and stated that Australia must bear all responsibilities for this.
Wang Wenbin first pointed out that China has always believed that a healthy and stable China-Australia relationship is in the fundamental interests of the two countries, and China-Australia cooperation is essentially mutually beneficial and win-win.
At the same time, mutual respect and good mutual trust are the prerequisites for dialogue and pragmatic cooperation between countries.
He said that for a period of time, Australia has disregarded China’s solemn position and repeated representations, and abused the so-called “national security” grounds to restrict and suppress China-Australia cooperation projects in the fields of economy, trade, humanities and other fields and the changes in existing achievements, which seriously harmed China and Australia The mutual trust between the two countries undermines the foundation of normal exchanges and cooperation. China has to make the necessary and proper response, and Australia must bear all responsibilities for this.
Wang Wenbin also said that China urges Australia to abandon the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice, take a truly objective view of China's development and China-Australia cooperation, immediately return to rationality, correct mistakes, change course, stop the crazy suppression of China-Australia cooperation, and stop normalizing the country Communication is politicized and stigmatized, and don't go further and further down the wrong path.
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