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The PM is heading to China and the relationship with Beijing has thawed. But will trade ever return to normal?

Economic ties are expected to feature heavily during the first visit by an Australian PM since 2016, amid a gradual easing of export restrictions

The Guardian - AU

Albanese to raise human rights and trade with Xi in first China visit by Australian PM since 2016

Ahead of trip signalling emergence from diplomatic deep freeze, Albanese also calls on Beijing to again allow Australian journalists to report from mainland

The Guardian - AU

Australian prime minister to raise imprisoned democracy blogger during China visit

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will raise the plight of a detained Australian democracy blogger with Chinese leaders during his visit to China

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Family of Australian blogger jailed in China pleads for urgent release: ‘I’m sick, I’m weak, I’m dying’

Australian prime minister says he will raise plight of detained writer with Chinese leaders during his landmark visit

The Independent UK

Jailed Aussie academic on PM's radar for China trip

The sons of an Australian man jailed in China have heard from the prime minister after urging him to pressure Beijing for their father's release.

AAP

Yang Hengjun’s family urges Albanese to negotiate with China for jailed Australian writer’s release

Democracy activist ‘hasn’t enjoyed any direct sunlight for over four years’ and his children fear their father risks being left to die in a Chinese prison

The Guardian - AU

Emotions run high as Australian mother freed from China

After years of working for Cheng Lei's release from a Chinese prison, the foreign minister has detailed the journalist's emotional return to Australia.

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Detained Australian journalist released by China

Cheng Lei has returned to Melbourne and been reunited with her family after Chinese authorities released the Australian journalist from detention.

AAP

‘Tight hugs, teary screams’: Cheng Lei releases first statement after release from detention in China

The Australian journalist was freed and is back home in Melbourne after being detained in August 2020 over national security-related accusations

The Guardian - AU

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia expert Richard McGregor on Anthony Albanese's coming visit to China

Anthony Albanese has now confirmed he’ll be heading to China before the end of the year. He is the first Australian prime minister to visit since 2016, and it is the culmination of an improvement in China-Australia relations since the change of government.

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Chinese academic raided by Australian police and offered $2,000 for information during trip

Exclusive: Sino-Australian relations expert had phone confiscated and was asked to provide information during ‘heavy-handed’ and ‘counterproductive’ episode

The Guardian - AU

Chinese Australian writer fears dying in Beijing detention after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst

Chinese Australian writer and democracy blogger Yang Hengjun has told his family he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting supporters to demand his release for medical treatment

The Independent UK

Detained Australian writer fears he may die of kidney condition in China jail

Yang Hengjun has told supporters he is in pain from a cyst on his kidney that remains untreated

The Guardian - AU

Australia, China to build on 'positive momentum' but no major breakthrough after meeting on trade

Australia and China agree to step up dialogue to resolve bitter trade disputes under existing free trade mechanisms, but fail to secure any major breakthrough during ministerial talks in Beijing.

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WA Premier Mark McGowan raised cases of detained Australians during China trip

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan says he raised the cases of two detained Australians while he was on a five-day trip in China.

The Independent UK

Australia concerned journalist still awaits verdict in China

Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong says her government remains deeply concerned that Australian journalist Cheng Lei has not learned of a verdict a year after standing trial in China on national security charges

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Australia 'deeply troubled' by Chinese espionage case

Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong says her government is “deeply troubled” by the delays in China resolving espionage allegations against Chinese-Australian writer and blogger Yang Hengjun

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Australian government 'deeply troubled' by delays to writer Yang Hengjun's espionage trial verdict in China

Foreign Minister Penny Wong expresses concerns after Chinese authorities delay a verdict in the espionage trial of Australian writer Yang Hengjun until April — the seventh such delay.

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Australia says it's 'troubled' by delays in writer's espionage trial verdict in China

A verdict in the espionage trial of Australian writer Yang Hengjun, detained by China since his arrest there four years ago, has been delayed until April, the seventh such delay, his supporters said on Thursday.

The Guardian - AU

‘Starting to warm up’: Chinese state media welcomes Wong visit after Coalition’s ‘stupid’ policies

Foreign minister says in Beijing she will press for detained Australians Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun ‘to be reunited with their families’

The Guardian - AU

Partner of detained Australian journalist Cheng Lei hopeful of ‘compassionate and speedy resolution’

Nick Coyle said it was positive that prime minister Anthony Albanese and foreign minister Penny Wong had raised her case with their Chinese counterparts

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Face time with Xi Jinping 'a successful outcome', says Anthony Albanese ahead of talks with China's president

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese believes securing face time with the Chinese President Xi Jinping is a sign of success, after six years in the diplomatic freezer.

The Guardian - UK

Penny Wong: China and Australia take ‘first steps towards stabilising relationship’

Foreign affairs minister meets Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at G20 in Bali to push for end to ‘coercive’ sanctions

The Guardian - AU

China ambassador tells Australian protesters ‘no such thing as absolute freedom’

Xiao Qian says there is no reason for China and Australia to be enemies as his address is interrupted by protests

The Conversation

As Wong makes her mark in the Pacific, the Albanese government should look to history on mending ties with China

Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s decision to embark on a diplomatic offensive to outflank China in the Pacific within days of being sworn in has yielded what appears to have been an early success.

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