“阿博特在当选总理一个月之后说，日本是他 ‘在亚洲最好的朋友’ ['our best friend in Asia']. 而之前的澳大利亚政府从地区战略角度出发，一直避免这种说法。
My comment:
(a) 芮捷锐 Geoff Raby
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Raby
(Geoffrey William "Geoff" Raby; 1953- ; PhD in economics from an Australian university; ambassador to Beijing under Kevin Rudd (first as PM, then as foreign minister); now serves as Chairman and CEO of Geoff Raby and Associates, a Beijing-based business advisory firm [a consultancy])
(b) Upon reading it, I had a feel of reading an English-language news report typical of one from an American news outlet. And it IS. Basically, the VOA report is translated from the following (plagiarism!) , supplemented with the latest from The Australian.
“Indeed, China’s non-financial outbound direct investment amounted to $US90.2bn in 2013 and is only just short of the $US117.6bn in foreign direct investment into China. Nowhere is this clearer than Australia.
“Australia has the world’s 13th largest economy but only the 52nd largest population and, therefore, not a large enough domestic savings base to support its required capital. China is increasingly being recognised as a new source of funding. Indeed, Australia has been the world’s largest recipient of capital investment from China over the past eight years. Despite Australia’s appeal for Chinese investment, it is important to put its current investment flows into Australia into perspective. While China, including Hong Kong, has had the fastest foreign direct investment growth into Australia since 2007, it still only accounts for 3 per cent of Australia’s total foreign direct investment and is the ninth largest investor in Australia overall — so clearly there is room for growth.