00:00Some gifts are impossible to refuse.
00:07Adelaide's famous panda pair, Wang Wang and Fu Ni, have won hearts but failed to create
00:13any precious offspring.
00:14Enter China's second most senior leader with a goodwill gesture.
00:18What I want to tell you is that we will provide a new pair of equally beautiful, lovely and
00:27adorable pandas.
00:31An easy bid for hearts and minds.
00:34Can I say how grateful we are for your generous offer?
00:40It's a rare gift but one that comes at little cost to Beijing.
00:45And its critics here say Australia's focus should remain squarely on repression in China.
00:52Ever since 1949 there has been a genocide happening in China to the Uyghurs.
00:58But for today both sides were keen to emphasise the positive.
01:01The Premier also visiting an Adelaide winery.
01:04Peter is the finest winemaker in Australia.
01:10Sipping Australian red which is now flowing back into China after Beijing lifted crippling
01:16tariffs.
01:17It comes after two years of very deliberate, very patient work by this government to bring
01:23about a stabilisation of the relationship.
01:26The symbolism of the trip to the winery cuts both ways.
01:30Labor wants to highlight how stabilisation has ended Beijing's campaign of trade punishment,
01:35bringing real benefits to the industries which were slugged.
01:39But it also simultaneously highlights how China has been willing to use economic coercion
01:44against Australia, a decision which has profoundly shaped the government's attitudes towards
01:50it.
01:51The Premier winging his way to the capital.
01:57We want the Australian government to ensure that human rights is not swept under the carpet.
02:02As ever with China there are choices and trade-offs, few of them easy.
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