Rio de Janeiro | Anthony Albanese says he will keep improving relations with China without compromising the national interest, after President Xi Jinping rekindled a key demand that Australia provide greater foreign investment access to Chinese interests, and linked it to increased trade.

Following a formal meeting with Mr Xi on the sidelines of the G20 in Brazil early on Tuesday AEDT, the prime minister said his government had managed to secure the removal of all Chinese tariffs and other restrictions on $22 billion of exports, without ceding on sovereignty or national security.

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