Australia pursuing relationship with China based on ‘mutual respect and understanding’: PM

August 7, 2018. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, at the University of NSW (UNSW) in Sydney, gives an address on international education, with Chinese Ambassador to Australia Cheng Jingye and Sydney Counsel-General Gu Xiaojie among the audience. Mr Turnbull says in the midst of rapid change, Australia would continue to advance its own interests through a relationship with China based on mutual respect and understanding. He says “and in doing so, we support an international order based on the rule of law where might is not right and the sovereignty of all nations is respected by others - a principle President Xi (Jinping) endorsed when he addressed a joint sitting of the Australian parliament in November 2014.” The prime minister also says it would be a big mistake to assume China will assume the role of the Soviet Union in a 21st century Cold War with the United States. Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi at the weekend told Australia it must do more to boost mutual trust rather than being "groundlessly suspicious". (AAP Video/Carol Cho)

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