China Rebuilds Australia Ties After Failing to Press Economy
- Australian delegation in China for first time since pandemic
- Australia exports remained strong throughout the trade tension
An Australian flag outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 2013.
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Australia’s economic and diplomatic relations with China are in recovery mode, with tensions over issues ranging from foreign investment to security receding as Beijing tamps down its punitive efforts to bend one of its key commodity suppliers to its will.
In the strongest sign yet that years of frosty relations are warming again, more than a dozen companies including Rio Tinto Plc and Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. headed to China this week — the first such trip since the pandemic. Trade Minister Don Farrell is expected to visit as soon as May.