Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Chinese Premier Li Qiang met on Monday in the first visit to the country by a Chinese premier in seven years.
After the meeting, Li told reporters the leaders held a “candid, in-depth and fruitful meeting and reached a lot of consensus.”
He said both leaders agreed to uphold the right characterisation of their bilateral relationship and consolidate its momentum by handling their relationship with a positive attitude.
The visit by Li, China’s top-ranked official after President Xi Jinping, marks a stabilisation in relations between the U.S. security ally and the world’s second-biggest economy, after a frosty period of Beijing blocking $20 billion in Australian exports and friction over defence encounters.