Australian Premier Heads to China as Trump Stresses Alliance (1)

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese plans to travel to China for the first time since 2023, seeking to strengthen ties with his country’s largest trading partner while its top security ally US aims to check Beijing’s presence in Asia.

The Australian leader said Tuesday that he’ll visit Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu, where the country has consular operations, starting from Saturday.

Anthony Albanese and Xi Jinping in 2022.

Photographer: James Brickwood/Sydney Morning Herald/Getty Images

“China’s an important trading partner for Australia, 25% of our exports go to China,” he told reporters in Hobart, the state capital of the island of Tasmania. “What that means is jobs, and one of the things that ...