Gyeongju: For the second time in little more than a week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dined with US President Donald Trump, this time accompanied by a coterie of leaders from an assortment of Asia-Pacific nations.

The venue was not the White House but a banquet room at the Hilton in the South Korean tourist town of Gyeongju, where Trump and the leaders took their seats somewhat awkwardly at a small round table for a dinner hosted by President Lee Jae Myung.

But not before Trump praised Albanese for their “great meeting a week ago” and said he had “done a fantastic job”, in an exchange of small talk before the assembled press.

“We’re working together on rare earths, but we’re working on a lot of things together,” the US president said.

With Albanese seated to his right and Lee

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