Morning everyone. Anthony Albanese will be hoping that his short meeting with Xi Jinping last night will help with Australia’s key diplomatic and strategic conundrum: how to rebuild vital economic ties with China without jeopardising good relations with the US. It seemed, on the surface at least, to go quite well with Xi telling the prime minister that he “attached great importance” to his opinion. Kickstarting those lost coal and wine sales might take a bit longer.
Meanwhile, there are reports Russian missiles launched in a heavy wave of strikes against Ukraine have landed on a Polish town.
