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© Provided by ABC NEWS Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles met with his Chinese counterpart Wei Fenghe in Singapore. (Supplied) Australian relations with China are still far from normalised, the nation’s former head of defence has cautioned after a watershed meeting between the two countries’ defence ministers. Newly sworn in Defence Minister Richard Marles met with his Chinese counterpart, General Wei Fenghe, yesterday on the side of an international forum in Singapore. The meeting marked the first high-level diplomatic talks between the two governments since January 2020. Former defence secretary Dennis Richardson told the ABC it was an opportunity that...