Analysis

It may not be a full China reset, but it’s a promising start

Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Xi Jinping is about putting a floor under the relationship. The ultimate test will be how many storeys will be on top.

Phillip CooreyPolitical editor

Nov 15, 2022 – 7.00pm

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Anthony Albanese’s meeting with Xi Jinping was locked in for some time. How long, exactly, the prime minister and his staff wouldn’t say. Still won’t, even after it was confirmed.

So nervous was the government that the meeting would fall over, it kept shtum until Albanese announced it on the tarmac in Bali on Monday afternoon, following mutual agreement with Beijing.

Phillip Coorey is the political editor based in Canberra. He is a two-time winner of the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence.