(Bloomberg) -- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touches down in Washington on Monday to kick off a month of critical diplomatic engagements that...
-- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touches down in Washington on Monday to kick off a month of critical diplomatic engagements that will see him travel to the White House, a tiny South Pacific nation and the halls of power in Beijing.Albanese, having taken office less than 18 months ago, will be in the US from Oct. 23-26, accompanied by a delegation of Australian business leaders.
“Inevitably with a close ally that’s trying to repair relations with Beijing, I think the US will want to project Australia as still a stalwart ally that’s in the US and Western camp,” said Euan Graham, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “The job for Albanese is to thread that needle.”
Traveling abroad may also be an escape for the prime minister from domestic political woes. Albanese’s signature plan to enshrine Indigenous Australians in the constitution by establishing a Voice to Parliament was resoundingly defeated at an Oct. 14 vote. “Being led down into the Great Hall of the People to meet Xi Jinping is an intimidating experience,” Graham said. “It will be a test of Albanese’s foreign policy credentials that he doesn’t allow to optically get the better of Australia.”
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