The sidelines of this week's G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bali will see the first in-person meeting of Australian and Chinese foreign ministers since 2019, before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong will meet her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on Friday in the first such high-level, face-to-face talks since 2019.China's Foreign Ministry announced the pair will meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in BaliIt's almost three years since the foreign ministers from Australia and China met in person
It's another sign that the relationship between Australia and China is beginning to thaw, and the clearest signal yet that Beijing is willing to resume sustained, high-level dialogue with the new Labor government., and will meet outside the main meeting around 6pm local time .
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