Anthony Albanese may be humming Paul Kelly and Powderfinger when his plane lands back in Australia from China on Friday. China’s envoy in Canberra even took the extraordinary step of issuing a list of 14 grievances with Australia. Labor’s efforts in its first term to calm tensions and foster cooperation are clearly paying dividends. We learned on Wednesday that these more difficult issues were raised after Albanese met Xi, during his lengthy talks with China’s premier, Li Qiang. They say Australia and China will cooperate where we can, and disagree where we must.