Excuse me?
Earlier, you just said "but a Chinese diplomat acting outraged is a bit of a joke. People in glass houses, and all that." and now you're backtracking?
What are you, a western politician?
I think that's sort of the point. Diplomats are normally diplomatic, and China wants to be treated with respect at the very least by diplomats from other countries. Does it really want to get sent a lot of insults in future from other countries, or be spammed with Winnie The Pooh memes? It can't have it both ways, especially when it refuses to accept it ever commits any sort of human rights violations to the point where it will prosecute any whistleblowers.
LOL what?! western mouthpieces often have a tendency to project their own insecurities onto China and conflate every microagression as being deliberate.
"China wants to be treated with respect" is a trope common amongst western stenographers who assume their esteem amongst Asians is to be valued-i can't say i blame them when they're constantly having their egos stroked from their times in HK pre Handover, but reality is a different beast.
Here's what you're missing: China couldn't give less of a shit about what Australia thinks, they tried the charm offensive back in 2008 after the Stern Hu debacle, even gifting pandas to Australia. What did that get them? Even with Rudd and Labor in charge who were smart enough not to step on China's toes. It wasn't until Turnbull and Morrison that shit really started going south.
Enter the new Chinese ambassador who put it straight to Australian media as early as this year: "China might well ask why they should eat Australian beef or drink australian wine?(sic)".
Morrison tried to suck up to China when it was clear Trump was on his way out and Biden was more concerned with killing russians than helping australia stay white anglo supremacist; he tried this week but to no avail and when it was clear sucking up wasn't getting him anywhere and when it was clear ASIO's CIA paymasters weren't going to let him do any of China's 14 point list of requests, he decided to double down, hoping now for an american think tank position when he gets inevitably fired by his own party of the australian electorate.
Can you give a timeframe and likely response? Anyone can say "it's just around the corner", but I'd like to know some more specifics about what's going to happen and when.
Evidently you don't follow finance, TWE is the ASX code for Treasury Wine (Australis' largest exporter of wine), it was ~$10.20 prior to the Chinese announcement on Friday, after the announcement it dropped to $9, then today it went down further to $8.
A 20% decline in less than a week due to Chinese penalties as a response to white supremacist policies by australia is no laughing matter. Australian coal and eventually iron ore are on the table, just as China shifts to a consumer domestic dual circulating economy. The demand for iron ore may well diminish.