Albanese flags Xi meeting ahead of Beijing visit

"We have made progress without shifting any of our fundamental positions on trade, on security, on regional stability," Mr Albanese said. The government wants to use the same process that lifted the barley tariffs as a template for resolving Beijing's effective blacklisting of $1.1 billion of wine sales. In both cases, Australia launched World Trade Organisation challenges to the anti-dumping tariffs. After the WTO circulated a draft ruling understood to be in Australia's favour on the barley case, the Albanese government and China in April agreed to a suspension of the challenge so Beijing could conduct its own review of…