Where is the free trade agreement at?
SIMON CREAN: The free trade agreement is still progressing, but it is not progressing as fast as I would have liked, because essentially we’ve said to the Chinese that there’s no point in continuing to have further technical level discussions unless we get a clearer signal; not just of the political will to conclude, because I am convinced that such a will does exist. What there needs to be is a more effective coordination of the competing agency views that China must deal with if it’s to finalise the FTA. That being said, I’ve taken the view in relation to our economic relationship with China that just because the free trade agreement is not progressing as quickly as we like, it isn’t the only basis upon which we engage China. And that’s why, the last two visits that I’ve made to China have been to the regions; to identity the commercial opportunities to get government-to-government frameworks at the regional level to facilitate those commercial partnerships, and I think we’re making
