Overview

• He held meetings with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang in Beijing and Shanghai to advance cooperation on jobs, climate technology and tourism.
• The official joint statement made no mention of Taiwan or the South China Sea, reflecting a mutual choice to steer clear of contentious security issues.
• Albanese publicly backed no unilateral change to Taiwan’s status quo and declined US pressure for an open-ended commitment to join any conflict over the island.
• In Chengdu, he toured a Cochlear plant to witness an implant activation and visited a panda breeding facility, praising Fu Ni as a symbol of Sino-Australian friendship.
• Business roundtables and memoranda secured new partnerships on med-tech exports, steel decarbonisation, dryland farming and expanded visa-free short stays for Chinese tourists.