总理的这个警告发出的时候，外长佩恩说美国总统拜登开始四年任期时会密切关注澳洲与美国与中国的关系。
佩恩参议员没有具体说中国，但她说澳洲会"支持遵守国际规定和规则，促进透明和反对恶意行为，例如经济胁迫侵犯人权和使用虚假信息。"
经过中国数个月来限制澳洲出口后，莫里森先生说他对与中国领导人见面持开放态度，但前提是举行谈话没有政策上的条件。
中国大使馆去年公布一份文件，列出北京对澳洲的14个抱怨清单，包括对中国的负面媒体报道，外国投资决定，外国干预法律改革和联盟党议员对的批评。
莫里森先生说:"我们一直对见面持开放态度时的。
"我们对任何时候见面都持开放态度，但前提是这要是一次没有条件的见面。"
"我知道这14点是的内容，每个人都知道。如果这就是条件的话那么我们要过很久才能见面了。但我们很乐意见面和努力解决和讨论这些问题。"
莫里森先生说与中国的关系有"缓慢的转变"，并且驳回一些说法，就是因为他政府的任何决定导致去年两国关系变差。
他说:"这已经发生了好几年了。如果说这是突然发生的是不对的。我们已经看到这个发生好几年了。两国关系已经发生关系，不是因为某件事但是因为时间"。
工党批评莫里森政府没有等有全球共识就带领呼吁调查新冠源头。
世卫调查疫情得到了120多个国家支持，最后也包括中国，但北京对于莫里森这么早就要求调查表示愤怒。
中国在特恩布尔和莫里森政府时期就开始抵制澳洲，一开始是因为华为被禁止参加5G网络，还有引入外国干预法，并且拒绝接澳洲电话或者与内阁部长见面。
莫里森先生说他很有信心拜登先生会支持澳洲处理中国关系方式的，就像特朗普政府支持澳洲推行调查新冠源头一样。
佩恩参议员在澳洲人报写文章时说美国是一个不可或缺的伙伴来呼吁拜登政府，目的不仅仅是维持，而是改善地区安全，这个地区是由一些自由，主权和坚强的国家组成，当一个国家使用强权而不是规矩的时候这些国家就要团结起来。
佩恩参议员说美国作用是关键的，因为它的的价值观和理想主义历史，还有它的实际优势。美国是一个创新者，经济强国，外交领导者和澳洲同盟。 Scott Morrison says he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping only if there are no conditions for restarting dialogue, as he warned that Beijing’s global outlook had become “more inconsistent” with Australia’s sovereign interests.
The Prime Minister’s warning came as Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Australia’s and America’s relationships with China would be closely watched as US President Joe Biden began his four-year term in the White House Without specifically naming China, Senator Payne declared Australia would “support adherence to international rules and norms, promote transparency and stand against malicious behaviour such as economic coercion, human rights abuses and the use of disinformation’’.
After months of China slapping restrictions on Australian exports, Mr Morrison said he was open to meeting China’s leaders to work through problems in the relationship as long as there were no policy conditions to holding talks. The Chinese embassy last year released a dossier of 14 grievances Beijing had with Australia, including negative media coverage of China, foreign investment decisions, foreign interference reforms and critical commentary on the CCP by Coalition MPs.
“We are always open to meet,” Mr Morrison said. “We are open to meet whenever but … it is a no-conditions meeting. “I know what the 14 points are; so does everyone else. If they are the conditions then it will be a while before we meet. But we are happy to meet and work through these issues and discuss them.”
Mr Morrison said there had been a “slow turn” in the relationship with China and rejected claims it had deteriorated last year because of any single decision of his government “It has been happening for years,” he said. “The suggestion this has happened all on a dime I think is wrong. And we have seen these changes happen now for some years. The relationship has obviously changed, not over any one thing but over time.
“There have been changes where I think the sovereign position of Australia and the outlook of China, well those things have become more inconsistent.” Labor has been critical of the Morrison government for leading calls for a probe into the origins of COVID-19 rather than waiting until there was a global consensus on the need for an inquiry.
The World Health Organisation inquiry into the pandemic was supported by more than 120 countries, eventually including China, but Beijing has voiced fury at the Morrison government‘s early demand for the probe. China has progressively frozen out Australia during the Turnbull and Morrison governments — initially because of the exclusion of Huawei from Australia’s 5G network and the introduction of foreign interference laws — and refused to take phone calls from or meet cabinet ministers despite attempts to establish dialogue.
Mr Morrison said he was confident Mr Biden would support Australia in its handling of the China relationship, in much the same way as the Trump administration backed the government during the push for a probe into the origins of the coronavirus. Writing in The Australian, Senator Payne appealed to the Biden administration by labelling the US an “indispensable partner” in efforts not only to maintain but to improve security in a region of free, sovereign and resilient states that banded together “when any country resorts to raw power over rules”.
Senator Payne said America remained vital ”because of its values and its history of idealism, but also because of its sheer practical advantages. This is America the innovator, the economic powerhouse, diplomatic leader and Australian ally.” https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/9c6f46a5b1708a3933de4455aafc6997 https://www.theaustralian.com.au … c2cee8969aa3284f277
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