国内英语资讯:Feature: Mutual understanding keystone of China-Australia story_时事

国内英语资讯:Feature: Mutual understanding keystone of China-Australia story

At the Australia China Business Council annual networking day observed in Canberra on June 19, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said "mutual respect is the key" to bilateral relations.

Chinese Ambassador to Australia Cheng Jingye offered an answer as to how to ensure mutual respect.

"We need to see each other's development and policy intentions from a more positive perspective with less Cold-War mentality," Cheng said.

"It is my belief that in order to ... achieve sustained and sound development in bilateral relations the two countries need to have more interaction and inclusiveness with less bias and bigotry."

Professor Nick Bisley of Australia's La Trobe University warned that Australia should not take the close economic relations between the two countries for granted.

To avoid further deterioration of bilateral relations, the Australian government must figure out how to cope with a rising China comfortably, Bisley told Xinhua.

Rowan Callick, The Australian newspaper's China correspondent, wrote in an opinion piece published on Monday that "We can't let disagreement and distance become Australia's official strategy for China relations by default."

For mutual respect, countries need to have mutual understanding. Bisley said to improve understanding, the Australia government should emulate what they've done to encourage understanding of the United States, by sending young politicians to visit China and get to know more about China, its political system, culture, history and diversity.