Australian concerns over live fire drill brushed aside in Xi meeting

President Xi Jinping appears to have brushed aside Australia’s concerns about the lack of notice given by China ahead of a Chinese military exercise off the Australian coastline earlier this year. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters his meeting with the Chinese leader, held in Beijing on Tuesday, was “constructive” and that he had raised the live fire drill in a manner consistent with his previous public statements. He said Mr Xi had reiterated China’s right to perform exercises. “I said what I said at the time, which is that it was within international law, there was no breach of…