Hate to see it but Chinese visitors are coming to Australia in huge numbers again. Pre covid Chinese spend huge sums in aus on education, property, shopping, tourism, accommodation etc. It didnt earn any positive Pro China sentiment at all. Instead year by year there is increasing anti China sinophobic feelings in gov, media and population. Hopefully this time Chinese learn their lesson.
The Australian continent cannot be ignored with its rich resources and agricultural land; better to have the demographics tilted towards Chinese rather than the already burgeoning indian immigrants trying to get their cousins into australia so they can form ethnic fiefdoms as was seen in Oracle and Twitter.
In fact, the racists "Swamped by Asians" White Australia Policy crowd have never stopped harping on about how more Chinese voters are going to influence elections- because it just happened at the most recent election where Chinese voters destroyed the sinophobic Liberal Party in favour of the more conciliatory Labor Party. Currently, the US CIA aim is to depose the current Labor leader if he doesnt show enough anti China prostration after Foreign Minister Penny Wong just visited China.
I would like to add something.
There is this phrase which holds true for quite a lot of situations: 谁会跟钱过不去?
Despite being 10 months into the war in Ukraine (and also the start of the absolute worsening of EU-Russia relations), EU countries are still importing Russian oil to this day. Meanwhile, Russia is still happily earning that sweet oil and gas export revenue from EU:
Therefore, if China-Australia relations didn't degrade to become as bad as EU-Russia relations, then why should China limit the amount of trade with Australia unilaterally?
Besides, compared to the previous ScoMo's administration which were doing hot-headed anti-China ranting pretty much every single day, the current Albanese administration is relatively level-headed and less belligerent when it comes to China-Australia affairs. This is despite the recent anti-China moves, such as Australia preparing Tindal Air Base near Darwin to house B-52 bombers.
As far as I can recall, despite being the Prime Minister of Australia for 4 years, ScoMo has never once invited Xi for a state visit to Australia, or even considering to hold a face-to-face summit between both state leaders on the sidelines of multinational summits in a third country.
In fact, the only time ScoMo and Xi actually met each other was during the G20 summit in Osaka in 2019, and that was only done as a brief, 5/10-minutes-ish chat.
Meanwhile, Albanese had a official face-to-face summit with Xi on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali barely 6 months after he becomes the Prime Minister of Australia:
I think this shows that compared to the ScoMo administration, the Albanese administration does portray more willingness and openness to engage with China, at least on the diplomatic frontier. Perhaps it is rather evident that China-Australia tensions has cooled down somewhat, and that the icing on the Beijing-Canberra relations has thawed somewhat - Even if that's only for a little bit.
Therefore, if and when Canberra do offer Beijing chances that would promote further thawing of tensions and warming of relations between the two countries, I believe Beijing should not be reluctant to accept the offer, despite the rapidly growing animousity between the people of the two countries.
