MELBOURNE – Negotiations are under way for Australia to host China’s foreign minister for high-level government talks, according to Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
“Officials are working through when this might work,” Ms Wong said on Sunday in an interview with ABC News. “We would anticipate that dialogue to occur in Australia at an appropriate time.” Communications between Canberra and Beijing have resumed and relations have improved since the election of a Labor government in May 2022.scrapped import tariffs on Australian barley earlier in August,Beijing imposed the charges in May 2020, accusing Australian exporters of dumping on the Chinese market. The move came as bilateral ties fractured when then Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an international investigation into the origins of Covid-19.
Even as relations improve, the two countries face a range of issues. Ms Wong said the Australian government “holds deep concerns” in relation to two Australian citizens detained in China, journalist Cheng Lei and writer Yang Hengjun.Ms Wong said in the interview that she was keen to see more meetings between the countries’ foreign ministers.
Veteran Chinese diplomat Wang Yi returned to the role of foreign minister after the unexplained ouster of his successor Qin Gang, just seven months into the job. BLOOMBERG
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