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17 mins ago – 7.34AM Foreign Minister Penny Wong will press her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to remove Beijing’s remaining trade sanctions on Australian exports and raise the jailing of Chinese-Australian pro-democracy blogger Yang Hengjun when she hosts him in Canberra on Wednesday next week. Two days after China flagged it would remove crippling tariffs on Australian wine exports, Wong confirmed she would host Wang for the Seventh Australia-China Foreign and Strategic Dialogue. It will be the first visit by a Chinese foreign minister to Australia since Wang’s 2017 trip. The dialogue was last held in Beijing in December 2022...