Shortly after he won the election last month, Mr Anthony Albanese, the new prime minister of Australia, received an unexpected letter of congratulations.
The letter came from China's Premier Li Keqiang, whose message ended a period of more than two years in which Beijing has refused to have any high-level contact with the Australian government.
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