AUDIO: No end in sight for tension between China and Australia
Chinese flags fly high outside the Australian Parliament House in Canberra, on November 17, 2014. (AAP: Lukas Coch)
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Tensions continue between Australia and China, with the latter's Foreign Ministry accusing Australia of acting like a sick patient that is telling others to take medicine, and again refuting claims that Beijing is to blame for the current tensions.
China's government was responding to a recent speech by DFAT Secretary Frances Adamson, in which she said Beijing expects Australia to compromise its national interests in exchange for dialogue.
It is Foreign Ministry has rejected this, and says the responsibility to improve relations between the two countries sits with Australia.
Professor James Laurenceson is Director of Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS and spoke to ABC NewsRadio's Glen Bartholomew.