How Beijing welcomed Australia back in from the cold
China was on a charm offensive in Sydney and Canberra this week as Beijing prepares to unwind sanctions on $20 billion worth of exports. But is Australia permanently out of the deep freeze?
It was an unlikely first stop for the first senior Chinese official to visit Australia in six years.
Fresh off the plane, Ma Zhaoxu headed straight for Sydney’s Governor Phillip Tower where dinner had been organised on Tuesday night in the offices of a law firm with a small group of old acquaintances.
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