By Renju Jose
SYDNEY (Reuters) -China’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, will visit Australia next week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, a sign of a further thaw in relations after years of tensions.
“I look forward to meeting Wang Yi during his visit to Canberra next week,” Albanese said during a televised media briefing. “It’s a good thing that Wang Yi is visiting, it’s a good thing to have dialogue.”
Albanese said “significant progress” had been made in recent months to remove trade impediments with China, Australia’s largest trading partner.
Australia’s diplomatic relations with China had been severely strained since 2018 when the previous conservative government banned Huawei from providing…
