A spokesman for Trade Minister Farrell confirmed the Australian government had reached out to Mr Wang for a meeting on the sidelines of the World Trade Organisation's 12th Ministerial Conference in Switzerland over the past week, but the Chinese minister had been unavailable.
Relations between Australia and China deteriorated in April 2020 when then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an international investigation into the origins of Covid-19. Shortly after Mr Morrison's announcement, Australian exports to China began to encounter difficulties entering Chinese ports, such as lengthy customs delays and high tariffs.
However Mr Albanese downplayed the possibility of a diplomatic reset between the two countries on Tuesday, saying the relationship would remain cool until tariffs imposed by the Chinese government on Australian imports were lifted.
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