Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with China’s President Xi Jinping in Brazil on Monday as Beijing seeks to promote Australia as a model for trading with China in a Trump era, even as Canberra draws closer defense ties with Washington.
The meeting with Xi, which took place on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, comes a year after Albanese traveled to Beijing to end a yearslong diplomatic dispute that saw billions of dollars’ worth of Australian exports to its largest trading partner blocked.
