'Highly unusual': Turnbull government releases China extradition statement after pressure

By James Massola, Chief Political Correspondent
Updated April 24 2017 - 11:28pm, first published 11:21pm
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Premier Li Keqiang of China during a signing ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 24 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares  Photo: Andrew Meares
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Premier Li Keqiang of China during a signing ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 24 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares

The federal government appears to have been forced to release details of a high-level ministerial meeting with a top Chinese official, three days after the meeting took place in Sydney and only once Chinese media published the communique from the meeting.

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