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Speak clearly to Xi, and avoid the traps

The Prime Minister’s visit to a prickly Beijing will be watched closely for tone and content, at home and among allies.

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The shadow-boxing around a prime ministerial visit to China has ended. Meeting China’s premier, Li Qiang, in the margins of the East Asia Summit this week, Anthony Albanese said he would visit before the end of the year. The question now is not when to go, but how to go.

Anthony Albanese and Xi Jinping met at the G20 summit in Bali in November 2022. Xi has snubbed the 2023 event in India. James Brickwood

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Richard Maude is a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute
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