BEIJING — China on Tuesday called for “concrete actions” from Australia to improve ties following tensions over Beijing’s anger with recent political moves by Canberra. The terse remarks by Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang followed a meeting between Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Australian counterpart, Julie Bishop, that produced markedly different responses from the two sides. That is not what we want,” Lu quoted Wang as saying. “We hope Australia will genuinely translate its words into concrete actions,” he quoted the minister as saying. Bishop has not visited China in two years and although Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Australia last year, that did little to improve ties.

Source: National Post May 22, 2018 10:07 UTC