So China needs coking coal for steel-making for infrastructure projects as economic stimulus in response to covid + "covid-zero" ("Covid, but no calories!"), and China needs thermal coal (or electricity pricing reform) for a warmer 2022 than 2021, but none of this so much that the not-sanctions can lift without some form of concession, nor even so much that risky military encounters aren't still fun. So, four protips and a new ambassador to Oz. the new ambassador is a sheep warrior, nice, kind, conciliatory, meeting people without being hostile, etc, reportedly, but the protips remain weirdly so far out of step with actual international relationship talk that yadda yadda I don't know.
I suppose the thinking they want to encourage is "let's find other markets and leave the sea to China." Let's know our place in the world. A lackey to a real (declining) power in the US who should rethink some bullshit let's not talk about Japan and India.
Thanks China. Luv u2.