Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host Wong for a meeting on Wednesday in the Chinese capital, the first time an Australian foreign minister has been invited to visit China since 2018.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong will visit Beijing on Tuesday to meet with her Chinese counterpart, the latest breakthrough in the Albanese government’s bid to stabilise relations with Australia’s largest trading partner.
“In 1972, then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam took a bold decision, recognising the importance of engagement and cooperation between our two nations and peoples. Gough Whitlam on the Great Wall of China in 1971, as leader of the opposition a year before his government formally recognised and established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, through the signing of a joint communiqué by the Australian and PRC ambassadors in Paris.
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