'Handsome boy': Albanese, Xi to resume annual talks

The restoration of the annual dialogue represents a culmination of 18 months of diplomatic efforts by both sides to stabilise the relationship which had all but collapsed when China took issue with measures by Australia to safeguard its national security. Until Mr Albanese met Chinese President Xi Jinping a year ago in Indonesia, there had been no official meeting between the president and an Australian prime minister since Mr Xi and Malcolm Turnbull met in Lima, Peru, in November 2016. The front page of Chinese newspaper, the Global Times. David Crowe And until Mr Albanese held formal talks with Mr…