Australia's Trade Minister Don Farrell meets with representatives of the Australian business community in China at the Australian embassy in Beijing, China on May 11, 2023. - Reuters
SYDNEY/BEIJING, May 14 (Bloomberg): China and Australia’s trade ministers held their first in-person economic dialog since 2019 on Friday, with both sides pushing to resolve some of the areas of dispute that had poisoned relations.
"I am very confident that as a result of this face-to-face discussion today that we are well on track to getting a stable, normal relationship with China,” Australian Trade Minister Don Farrell told reporters after a meeting and dinner with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao.
