Albanese flags Xi meeting ahead of Beijing visit

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“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...