Elena Collinson is Head of Analysis at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney. She has previously held positions as researcher and adviser in Australian departmental, ministerial and Senate offices, at state and federal levels. She is also a lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
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Trade barriers have been lifted, and high-level meetings resumed, but experts say critical points of Australia's policy on containing China have not changed.