China's Wang Yi visits Australia as relations thaw

A sign of thawing relations, as China's top diplomat Wang Yi met his Australian counterpart Penny Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in a rare diplomatic visit to the country. China said Mr Wang's trip -- his first in seven years -- was productive. Both countries claimed to have stabilised long-strained relations after their talks in Canberra. Relations unravelled over the past few years, after Australia called for an international investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both countries would later impose tit-for-tat restrictions on each other's exports.