Marise Payne reports ‘positive’ meeting with counterpart despite trade tensions
Australia’s foreign minister, Marise Payne, says she has had a “very positive” meeting with her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, despite Scott Morrison’s decision this week to publicly push China to step up on emissions reduction and fair trade.
As the UN’s chief, António Guterres, warned the 74th UN general assembly in New York that the world faced a “great fracture”, with the countries at risk of cleaving between the great powers of the US and China, Payne met the Chinese foreign minister on the sidelines of the event for their second conversation in two months.
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