Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with China’s Xi Jinping to try to “stabilize” the relationship between the countries
, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met the Chinese President on Tuesday amid the G20 summit on the Indonesian resort island. Xi will also use the occasion of the global conference to meet with other U.S. allies like South Korea and France. But the meeting between Albanese and Xi represents an especially important moment for the relationship between two major powers in the Asia-Pacific region, which had soured in recent years.
Albanese called the discussions “very positive and constructive” in remarks to the media after the meeting. He said the countries still have “big differences to manage” but insisted “we’re always going to be better off when we have dialogue and are able to talk constructively and respectfully, but also honestly, about what those differences are.”
Experts say that Australia had become a global outlier for just how bad its relationship with China had become. Although former Prime Minister Scott Morrison spoke with Xi briefly at the G20 in 2019, no Australian Prime Minister had held formal talks with the Chinese President since Malcolm Turnbull in 2016.
Relations between the two countries have sunk to a decades-low nadir in recent years, particularly under the conservative government of Albanese’s predecessor Morrison, who lost his bid for reelection in May. Shortly before Morrison became Prime Minister in 2018, Australia banned Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei from its 5G network—the first country to do so. In 2020, Morrison
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