How did we go from calls to research the origins of Covid-19, to China's call to boycott Australian wine? Relations between Beijing and Canberra started to go south back in May when Australia demanded an independent probe into the origins of the pandemic. Now, on the week of the first anniversary of the first documented Covid-19 case in Wuhan, ties have soured further after a senior Chinese official posted a fake image of an Australian soldier holding a bloodied knife to the throat of an Afghan child, prompting Australian Prime Minister Morrison to demand an apology from Beijing.