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Will GlasgowNorth Asia Correspondent

Will Glasgow is The Australian’s North Asia Correspondent, now based in Beijing. He has lived and reported from Beijing and Taipei since 2020. He is winner of the Keith McDonald Award for Business Journalist of the Year and previously worked at The Australian Financial Review.

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Albanese visitPolitics

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is greeted by Chinese Premier Li Qiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, November 7, 2023. Picture: PMO

China visa deal to boost business

Anthony Albanese has given the green light to a new Australia-China visa deal to make it easier for visitors and business people to travel between the countries.

Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

Chinese shockedNation

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wearing a Sydney Rabbitohs jersey during a walk on the Bund in Shanghai, China. https://twitter.com/wmdglasgow

‘Very handsome boy’: Our video of PM goes viral in China

Anthony Albanese has become an accidental social media sensation in China over an encounter with our journalist that has left some Chinese in disbelief | WATCH THE VIDEO

Will Glasgow

AnalysisCommentary

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Monday, November 6, 2023. Anthony Albanese will hold talks in China with President Xi Jinping in the first visit to the Asian nation by a sitting prime minister since 2016. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Xi’s meeting with Albanese decoded

Let’s be clear: our relationship with China hasn’t moved into some post-friction fantasy-land after last night’s meeting.

Will Glasgow

relationsPolitics

06-11-2023 - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China, Monday, November 6, 2023. Picture: PMO

Out of the seven-year deep freeze

After a seven-year freeze, Xi Jinping finally allowed an Australian Prime Minister to enter the ominously proportioned Great Hall of the People for a chat.

Will Glasgow

Historic visitNation

Talking, if not quite trusting: PM, Xi meet

Xi Jinping has told Anthony Albanese that Australia-China relations have ‘embarked on the right path’, hours after the PM refused to say whether he trusted the dictator.

Ben Packham and Will Glasgow

PilgrimagePolitics

Former Australian prime minister Gough Whitlam visiting Beijing's Whispering Wall in 1973, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visiting on November 6, 2023.

Fifty years on, Albanese echoes Whitlam in Beijing

The Prime Minister has set off in Gough Whitlam’s footsteps with a Temple of Heaven tour before his high stakes meeting with Xi Jinping, as part of a two day itinerary echoing much of the historic 1973 Beijing visit.

Will Glasgow

LIVE

LIVE: Politics NowThe Nation

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during the opening ceremony of the 6th China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai on November 5, 2023. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

Matter of trust: PM falls short of backing Xi

Anthony Albanese has refused to say if he trusts Xi Jinping, just hours before his first meeting with China’s leader in Beijing.

Jess Malcolm and Will Glasgow

trade showNation

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits the Australian stalls at China International Import Expo in Shanghai, China, Sunday, November 5, 2023. Anthony Albanese will hold talks in China with President Xi Jinping in the first visit to the Asian nation by a sitting prime minister since 2016 Picture - PMO/X

Let’s toast to first port of call: a warmer relationship

The controversial Chinese billionaire leaseholder of the Port of Darwin was among the business guests in Shanghai where the mood was bullish.

Will Glasgow

Albanese in ChinaNation

Australia’s Minister for Trade Don Farrell and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits the Australian stalls at China International Import Expo in Shanghai, China, Sunday, November 5, 2023. Anthony Albanese will hold talks in China with President Xi Jinping in the first visit to the Asian nation by a sitting prime minister since 2016. Picture - PMO/X

Nice to be in good books, but the catch remains

The three-night visit marks the return of Australia to the group of countries that have strained, rather than appalling, relations.

Will Glasgow

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets China's President Xi Jinping in a bilateral meeting during the 2022 G20 summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, November 15, 2022. Picture: Twitter

Boom heralds PM’s China visit

Anthony Albanese will arrive in Shanghai with Australia’s trade surplus with China bigger than any other country, and the live lobster industry hopeful its three-year black-listing could end within days.

Will Glasgow

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