China has rolled out the red carpet for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

While our biggest trading partner is lobbing love bombs, our most powerful ally, the United States, is demanding truth bombs.

With more meetings to go will this diplomatic exercise help, or hurt, the government’s standing on the world stage and at home?

And an ABC Freedom of Information request has revealed a little more than Treasury, or the government, bargained for.

Patricia Karvelas and Jacob Greber break it all down on Politics Now.

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