While Senator Wong has already flagged she would press China over both its restrictions on what had been $20 billion of Australian exports and detention of journalist Cheng Lei’s and pro-democracy commentator Yang Hengjun’s, she and ambassador to China Graham Fletcher also wanted a restoration of the other channels for dialogue under Australia’s Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with China. These are annual leaders’ talks and the Strategic Economic Dialogue, which brings together the treasurer and trade minister with their Chinese opposites. China suspended these as the bilateral relationship soured. “Those three elements jointly let us cover the full spectrum of our...