China and Australia will keep open dialogue and look for areas of cooperation despite strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific region, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday after meeting China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

"Dialogue with China matters. For jobs, our economy and the security of our region," visiting Australian PM Anthony Albanese said in a post on X platform on Friday. “One in four Australian jobs depends upon our trade and the most important trading partner is China.

The prime minister of Australia, a longtime US security partner in Asia, sought to focus his trip to China this week on business and trade opportunities, sidestepping thornier issues around US-China competition such as Taiwan or Beijing’s military expansion.