The leaders of Australia and China did not meet for six years until Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sat down with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Bali this month. Due to Beijing's anger over an array of perceived slights, it imposed a host of hurdles to Australian imports of products ranging from lobster to coal in the interim. "China was keen to make an example of Australia to make sure others did not go astray, but it did not work," writes Dave Sharma, previously a senior Australian diplomat and legislator, noting that Canberra addressed none of Beijing's complaints before the Bali meeting.