A MEETING with China's president will be Prime Minister Tony Abbott's first order of business when he arrives in Bali for Asia-Pacific economic talks.
Mr Abbott is scheduled to have his first formal meeting with Xi Jinping within hours of arriving on the Indonesian holiday island on Sunday for the annual APEC leaders summit.
The prime minister is also expected to meet with the leaders of Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand, Canada and Mexico on the summit's sidelines in the coming days.
But a planned meeting with Barack Obama was cancelled after the US president decided to stay in Washington to deal with the ongoing government shutdown.
Mr Abbott is expected to meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry instead.
He will also be in a position to hold further talks with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is hosting APEC. The pair met earlier this month when Mr Abbott travelled to Jakarta.
APEC is Mr Abbott's first international summit since winning the top job last month, and only his second overseas trip.
Trade will be high on his agenda, particularly the ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, which seek to establish a grand free trade area that would include Australia and 11 other Asia-Pacific nations.
But there are doubts about whether the TPP talks will be able to make much progress without Mr Obama.
APEC wraps up on Tuesday, and Mr Abbott will head to the sultanate of Brunei for what's known as the East Asia Summit on Wednesday.
It brings together the leaders of the 10 ASEAN Southeast Asian nations, plus Australia, New Zealand, the US, Russia, China, India, Japan and South Korea.
The EAS will be focused more in regional and global security issues, such as North Korea and tensions in the South China Sea.
Mr Abbott returns to Australia on Thursday.
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