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In 2015, China opened its largest diplomatic mission in Pakistan. [4] Current missions. Africa. Host country Host city Mission ... Sydney: Consulate General
Consulates were operating in Australian cities long before the Commonwealth of Australia was founded in 1901. The United States opened a consulate in Sydney in 1836, with other countries later following including Switzerland (1855), Germany (1879) and Japan (1896, in Townsville).
Some controversy arose after it was revealed that China had negotiated a deal with the Australian Government to exempt building labourers from Australian workplace laws. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Paul Daley wrote in his 2013 book about Canberra: "Beijing's growing presence in this highly symbolic part of the city seems an appropriate, if unwelcome ...
Australia's first diplomatic representative in China was Vivian Gordon Bowden, who in 1935 was appointed as a trade commissioner based in Shanghai. [2] The establishment of trade commissions in several Asian countries was an initiative of the Lyons government first announced in 1933, where previously Australian interests had been represented by the United Kingdom. [3]
China: Shenyang: Consulate-General 2024 Indonesia: Kupang: Consulate 1999 [111] Medan: Consulate Unknown [112] Japan: Fukuoka: Consulate-General 2019 [113] Sapporo:
The 1930s saw an upsurge in bilateral relations. The Consulate-General was reorganised and moved to Sydney, with sub-consulates opened in other key cities. Various Chinese officials visited Australia. In 1931–2, Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government of China and figurehead head of state, visited Sydney and Melbourne. [6]
After the transfer of sovereignty to China in 1997, they were renamed consulates-general, [8] with the last commissioner becoming consul-general. [9] However, the Australian commission had been renamed the consulate-general in 1986.
The ongoing primacy of the Sydney community was recognised by the relocation of China's consul-general from Melbourne to Sydney in 1928. Sydney's Chinese population held more or less steady, but as the rest of the nation's Chinese communities shrank in size, there was a general sense of contraction.