Xi welcomes Australian PM Albanese in Beijing

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 07, 2023 12:14 am

BEIJING: Chinese leader Xi Jinping was set to welcome Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to Beijing on Monday, a high-water mark in their nations' ties following years of tensions that cut billions of dollars in trade.

Beijing is Canberra's biggest trading partner, but relations plummeted in 2020 after Australia's then-conservative government barred Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. from Fifth Generation (5G) contracts and called for an inquest into the origins of the coronavirus.

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