Canberra: Australia’s special envoy and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the free trade agreement between his people and India would indicate “Tilt the Democratic World from China.” Abbott visited New Delhi last week as a special Australian trading envoy for India as the Australian government gave a priority to seal bilateral trade agreements.
In terms of opinion which tend to be angry Beijing published in the Australian newspaper on Monday, Abbott said “the answer to almost every question about China is India.” “With the superpower that appears in the world to be more war almost that day, it is an interest in everyone that India takes a legitimate place among the nation as soon as possible,” Abbott wrote.
“Because the trade agreement is about as many politics as much as the economy, a quick agreement between India and Australia will be an important sign of the tilt of democratic world from China, and increasing the long-term prosperity of our two countries,” Abbott added.
, Abbott is the prime minister when China and Australia completed a bilateral free trade agreement that applies in 2015.
He also held a state visit by the Chinese President Xi Jinping a year earlier.
Relations have deteriorated from problems including Australia forbade Giant Telecom China Huawei from the main communication infrastructure projects, prohibiting secret foreign interference in Australia’s politics and calling for an independent investigation into the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Abbott accused Beijing of “Boycott changed” Australian exports including coal, barley, wine and seafood which showed the use of Chinese trade as “strategic weapons”.
“The basic problem is that China’s frightening strength is the consequence of the free world decision to invite communist dictatorship into a global trade network,” Abbott said.
“China has exploited good intentions and Western wishes to steal our technology and weaken our industry; and, in the process, becoming a competitor that is far stronger than the old Soviet Union, because now is the first-level economy that is growing rapidly to match; and Pampering to fight over Taiwan, 25 million pluralist democracy which is evidence of life, no totalitarian genes in Chinese DNA, “Abbott added.
The Chinese Embassy in Australia did not respond to a comment request on Monday.
Negotiations between India and Australia on a comprehensive economic cooperation agreement began in 2011 but were suspended in 2015.
India was specifically concerned with free trade in Australian agricultural exports.
New Delhi’s demands for less restrictive visas for Indian workers is the main sticky point for Australia.
The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his colleague Narendra Modi last year increased bilateral relations with a raft of the agreement that strengthened defense bonds and committed the two countries to expand trade.
Abbott visited India last week to “encourage our economic relations with his full potential, with mutual benefit Indian and Australian people,” said the Australian High Commissioner to India Barry O’Farrell said in a statement.
Australia marks a swing of trading democracy from China to India
