China News Service, June 12th. On the 10th local time, Australian Prime Minister Morrison met with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
After the meeting, Lee Hsien Loong said that the existence of China cannot be ignored and Australia needs to learn to live with China.
According to the Australian newspaper, Morrison visited Singapore on the 10th and held talks with Lee Hsien Loong before going to the UK to attend the G7 summit.
Data map: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Chenyi
After a 40-minute one-on-one meeting between the two parties, Lee Hsien Loong said at a press conference that relations with China are “one of the biggest foreign policy issues of every major country in the world”. All countries will need to cooperate with China, and it will always There is a substantial existence.
Lee Hsien Loong said that countries must be able to work on this basis. "This is a world with different countries. You must cooperate with countries that have some problems with each other and have different ideas in areas that share common interests."
"There will always be ups and downs...you have to deal with it," Lee Hsien Loong reminded, "but treat these as problems in the partnership you want to continue (developing), not as you want to borrow. This suppresses the opponent’s problem to deal with."
Lee Hsien Loong said that from Singapore’s point of view, only by doing this, "can we have the best opportunity to develop constructive relationships with them and avoid very bad results."
In recent times, China-Australia relations have continued to be cold.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian once said that the current serious difficulties facing China-Australia relations are rooted in Australia’s gross interference in China’s internal affairs, harming China’s interests, and imposing unreasonable restrictions on exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in various fields, and the responsibility is not at all on the Chinese side.
Zhao Li insisted that the most urgent task is for Australia to face up to the crux of the frustration of bilateral relations, to view China and China's development objectively and rationally, to return to the right track of China-Australia comprehensive strategic partnership, and to do more things that are conducive to enhancing mutual trust between the two countries and promoting pragmatic cooperation.