# Albanese meets Xi Jinping in Bali after a multi-year freeze

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 15 November 2022, on the G20 sidelines in Bali, Albanese held a bilateral meeting with [Xi Jinping](/people/env-person-xi-jinping), the first formal Australian–Chinese leaders’ meeting in years after the Morrison-era freeze. He raised detained Australians, trade blockages, Xinjiang, and Taiwan, and called the talks a step toward stabilisation. Later [Li Qiang](/people/li-qiang)’s 2024 visit is a child, not this hour’s unique export coefficient.

## Context

Coalition-era tariffs sat as parent weather. Neighbouring AUKUS is a neighbour security file. He did not sit as DFAT’s every desk.

2022 oath is the parent office. AUKUS March 2023 is a neighbour alliance file.

The Prime Minister of Australia chairs Cabinet and advises the Governor-General. Parliament enacts; the Governor-General assents. He does not write a High Court judgment, a state housing approval, or a US AUKUS submarine yard print.

## Evidence and sources

Prime Minister of Australia carries the official instrument or communique. SBS News records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [industrial-policy activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism): a completed thaw meeting with Australia’s largest trading partner.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 15 November 2022 Bali bilateral, independently reported.

Not established: that every trade restriction was thereby lifted that Tuesday, or a unique later barley coefficient.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Xi hosted the Chinese side. DFAT and Commerce share the neighbour tariff file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Albanese meets Xi Jinping in Bali after a multi-year freeze, not a later speech about Albanese meets Xi Jinping in Bali after a multi-year freeze.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Albanese meets Xi Jinping in Bali after a multi-year freeze on 2022-11-15 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister of Australia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Albanese meets Xi Jinping in Bali after a multi-year freeze into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He attended. Xi hosted the Chinese side. DFAT and Commerce share the neighbour tariff file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Anthony Albanese: https://factrail.ai/people/anthony-albanese

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/from-detained-australians-to-the-20-billion-question-what-anthony-albanese-raised-in-xi-jinping-meeting/9bfy6zovf
- https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-bali-indonesia

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-xi-bali-2022