Canada-China Relations committee  Okay. I hope my French is excellent. Australian stabilization with China, which is really important to understand at this moment, has now been interrupted, of course, by a really terrible recent development, and that is effectively the death sentence on an Australian citizen who is detained in China, Dr.

Canada-China Relations committee  Thank you, Chair. It's a real privilege to join this conversation with the committee. I want to provide, really, two sets of observations to assist your inquiry. The first is to speak a bit about Australia's relationship with China, particularly the very difficult experiences we've had over the past eight years or so.