Anthony Albanese’s China trip gets results

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Given that so much more, economically and strategically, is at stake than in 1973, this was arguably the most important visit to China by an Australian PM since Whitlam, and the most important of the almost 20 trips abroad Albanese has made since leading Labor to election victory in May 2022. Albanese came to China with his eyes wide open, and with the full support of the business sector and national security establishment. His government doesn’t pretend the relationship will return to the heady status of a decade ago. The aim now is to stabilise, not normalise, to agree where...