Take a bow, Gui Goujie, the general manager of Chinese property company Shanghai Cred.
Professing a long-held love of Aussie Rules, Gui managed to get a spot, centre stage, with visiting Malcolm Turnbull and AFL boss Gill McLachlan, as the PM announced that David Koch's mighty Port Adelaide would play a game in Shanghai next year. 
"It could be a great opportunity if we could get some of China's 1.3 billion people in this sport," Gui said, according to our Mandarin translator.
Was there anything else to explain his enthusiastic support? Just a love of the game, he maintained, in so many words.
As it turned out, there was another link.
It seems Gui is part of Shanghai Pengxin's leading $350 million bid for the Kidman cattle station, the collection of properties about the size of 2 per cent of Australia.
That was news to us and, we understand, news to the PMO ... Surprise!
Well played, Gui. He almost had us uncorking a Hunter Valley Chardonnay and reaching for our Wallis inquiry, which we have promised to eat if the PM announces the sale on this trip.
Suppose there's still time.