SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said relations with Australia were moving in the right direction in the latest sign of progress in relations between the major trading partners.
Xi made the comments in an Australia Day congratulatory message to Australian Governor-General David Hurley, official Xinhua news reported.
Australia and China “have reviewed the afterlife and looked to the future, making active efforts in the right direction to expand China-Australia relations,” Xi said, according to Xinhua.
After about 3 years of tension over a variety of issues, including trade, symptoms recently emerged that their ties are heating up.
China unofficially banned Australians from coal to wine in 2020, after Canberra called for an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 and banned 5G networking at Chinese telecom giant Huawei.
His industry ministers have not met since, however, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong met her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, last month on the first visit to Beijing through an Australian minister since 2019.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Indonesia in November, marking the beginning of a thaw.
In January, China allowed some to resume loading Australian coal.
Last week, Xinhua reported that China’s Commerce Minister Wang Wentao would meet with his Australian counterpart, Don Farrell, in a video “in the near future. “
He did not give a date.
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