Australia's Wong says China meeting a “first step” in stabilising relationship – TODAY

SYDNEY : Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said a meeting with her Chinese counterpart was “a first step towards stabilising the relationship” but it would take time for Beijing to remove trade “blockages” on Australia. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Wong on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Bali on Friday evening, the first meeting between foreign ministers of the major trading partners in three years. “We both recognised it is a first step,” Wong told reporters after the meeting. She had raised the cases of detained Australian journalists Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun, and the “trade blockages”…