Albanese’s visit settles some US doubts

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Yet subject to what emerges from his visit to Beijing, Albanese seems to have left Washington with something of a new take on an older settlement in recent Australian foreign policy history: Canberra can be a close ally of the US while talking to China. And his two visits – this one to Washington – next week’s to Beijing, were always going to be seen as a diplomatic looking glass, one refracting through the other. Canberra’s “stabilisation” of relations with China, therefore, at least for the Australian side, is bearing fruit. But there are important caveats here. The first is...