If Australia wants to mend relations with China, we must stop viewing it as the enemy

‘Australia’s militarised response to China is exacerbating global faultlines and fracturing our own society; it is, in a word, destabilising.’ Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

For all the anticipation surrounding Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Xi Jinping, it has been hard to get much more than boilerplate out of the ALP on China. We will “cooperate where we can and … disagree where we must,” Penny Wong said in a speech on Sunday.

So what exactly is Labor’s China policy?