Penny Wong will on Wednesday become the first Australian minister to Beijing in China since 2019.
abc.net.au/news/foreign-minister-penny-wong-to-visit-beijing/101787586Penny Wong will on Wednesday become the first Australian minister to visit China since Beijing put diplomatic relations into a deep freeze.Diplomatic tensions have eased since Labor's election win, though trade punishments remainThe last time an Australian minister travelled to China was when then-trade minister Simon Birmingham visited in November 2019.
Penny Wong met her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in September. Her visit to China coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Whitlam government establishing diplomatic ties with the country."We both have much to gain from supporting a stable, prosperous and open Indo-Pacific, in which the sovereignty of nations is respected and the international rules-based order upheld," he said in a statement.Australia has been lobbying China to release detained journalist Cheng Lei and writer Yang Hengjun, and drop its $20 billion worth of trade sanctions.
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