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Penny Wong will on Wednesday become the first Australian minister to visit China since Beijing put diplomatic relations into a deep freeze. The last time an Australian minister travelled to China was when then-trade minister Simon Birmingham visited in November 2019. High-level lines of communication reopened between the government and the People's Republic of China after Labor's federal election win in May. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had a face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in November — the first meeting between the leaders of the two countries since 2016. Penny Wong met her Chinese counterpart...
