China's president issues a warm message to Anthony Albanese - despite sending WARSHIPS down under to show off his power

Xi Jinping has congratulated Anthony Albanese connected his reelection - conscionable months aft Chinese warships embarrassed Labor with live-fire drills successful the Tasman Sea.

China's overseas ministry had already sent a lukewarm connection to Mr Albanese aft the national election earlier this month, saying that the People's Republic 'stands acceptable to enactment with the caller Australian government'. 

But connected Tuesday the Chinese president sent his idiosyncratic congratulations, according to a connection from the Chinese embassy successful Australia.

'Xi said that implicit the past 3 years, helium had met with Prime Minister Albanese, and engaged with him successful in-depth discussions connected strategic, broad and directional issues concerning the improvement of China-Australia relations,' the embassy said.

'These discussions led to important consensuses that person provided strategical guidance to amended and turn bilateral ties.

'Strengthening practice betwixt China and Australia, Xi said, is of large value for achieving shared improvement and promoting satellite bid and stability.'

Xi had besides 'expressed his readiness to enactment with Albanese to beforehand the China-Australia broad strategical concern successful a dependable fashion', the embassy added, 'delivering greater benefits to the radical of some countries'. 

The Chinese president's connection came aft the People's Liberation Army Navy near the erstwhile Labor authorities red-faced earlier this year, conducting a circumnavigation of Australia and unrecorded drills. 

In February - 2 months earlier Mr Albanese's predetermination run got nether mode - Chinese warships held live-fire exercises 640 kilometers disconnected the New South Wales coast, forcing 49 commercialized flights betwixt Australia and New Zealand to alteration course.

It emerged astatine Senate estimates hearings that Australian Defence Force authorities were archetypal alerted to the drills, not by China, but by a Virgin aviator who heard the ships broadcasting. 

The workout took spot successful planetary waters, truthful did not breach planetary law, but Mr Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles some said China had not fixed capable warning.

The drills were seen by galore arsenic a bold objection of China's oversea power. 

Anne-Marie Brady, a Mandarin-speaking prof astatine the University of Canterbury who specialises successful Chinese home and overseas policy, told Daily Mail Australia that the drills were a informing of China's aboriginal intentions. 

'The livefire exercises successful the Tasman are a changeable crossed the bow to Australia and New Zealand of China's oversea powerfulness and tendency to normalise a imperishable beingness successful the South West Pacific,' Ms Brady said successful February. 

'There has been a dependable buildup of People's Liberation Army naval capableness crossed the South West Pacific.' 

Ms Brady added it was worrying that the United States had not made immoderate remark connected the drills.

'It is simply a precise atrocious motion that the US has not offered immoderate nationalist enactment for Australia during this crisis,' she said.