Kuala Lumpur/Singapore: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese raised Australia’s concerns about last week’s close encounter between a People’s Liberation Army aircraft and an Australian Air Force jet “very directly” with Chinese Premier Li Qiang during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit.

Speaking at the summit in Malaysia on Monday after becoming one of the first world leaders to meet with new Japanese Prime Minister and Quad partner Sanae Takaichi , Albanese also played down long-running concerns about the future of the security dialogue aimed at countering China. He suggested a leadership meeting could be held early next year.

Albanese’s meeting with Li comes after a successful visit to Washington last week, where he inked a $13 billion rare earths mining and proc

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