Good relationship requires efforts from both sides

Comments on Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor of The Australian “Tale of final straws and camel backs”, 19 /08/2009, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25950438-7583,00.html
The following is the first few paragraphs from Callick’s report:
CHINA has launched a two-track strategy to manage its increasingly strained relationship with Australia, encouraging investment to continue while freezing out Canberra on the official front.
The opposition blamed Kevin Rudd yesterday for the deterioration, which includes the downgrading of diplomatic visits including Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei being replaced as China's envoy at the recent Pacific Islands Forum summit in Cairns by Pacific desk chief Wang Yongqiu.
"Our relations with China are at the lowest ebb they've been for many, many years," Malcolm Turnbull said.
"Mr Rudd has been making an absolutely ham-fisted effort with our diplomatic relations. He obviously has no leverage with China left at all."
Liberal Queensland senator Russell Trood, former director of the Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations at Griffith University, said: "The humiliating, disdainful and provocative treatment of the Australian government by the Chinese government is the direct consequence of confused and muddled foreign policy objectives that Prime Minister Rudd has been pursuing in China since 2007."
It also said quoted Alistair Nicholas, originally from Sydney and principal of consulting firm AC Capital in Beijing, as saying: "It seems Australia is now public enemy No1 as far as the Chinese media is concerned. The straw that probably broke the camel's back for China was the granting of a visa to another public enemy of China -- Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of the World Uighur Congress."
It also reported that:
AC Capital's Mr Nicholas said: "What can Australia do to get out of China's crosshairs? Probably very little. The debate is at fever pitch in China. Rational arguments will fall on deaf ears.
"As a rising power, China is going to have to come to terms with the way of life in liberal democracies like Australia and the US, just as many Westerners have had to learn about the Chinese way of doing things."
What Nicholas said makes sense. China and the Westerners need to understand each other better and to be both sensitive to the other and show more tolerance for other’s way of living and doing businesses. It requires the efforts of both sides.