SYDNEY, June 11 — China’s Premier Li Qiang will travel to Australia this weekend on the highest-ranking visit in seven years, Canberra announced today, as the two nations’...
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Li’s four-day trip, which begins Saturday, comes after Beijing lifted most of the trade barriers it had imposed several years ago on Australian exports including coal, timber, barley, and wine. Though trade barriers had been “overwhelmingly” lifted, he called on China to remove remaining “impediments” on Australian lobsters and crayfish.China slapped trade sanctions on Australia in 2020, angered by Canberra’s exclusion of Huawei from its 5G network, new foreign interference laws and its support for an international probe into the origins of Covid-19.
Li will be welcomed with a state lunch and talks with Albanese in Canberra, the prime minister said, with visits to Adelaide and Perth and meetings with business leaders also on the programme.Li is scheduled to visit New Zealand sometime this week before heading to Australia, the first visit to either country by a Chinese premier since 2017.
In a sign of the tensions, Australia has accused Chinese forces of “unsafe and unprofessional” conduct in deploying sonar near its naval divers in the East China Sea in November and firing flares in the path of a naval helicopter last month over the Yellow Sea.
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