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Q: How will Australia view China with Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister?
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2009 white paper saw China as Australia's greatest military threat (which apparently most Australians believe also).
After Rudd was deposed as leader, his successor, Julia Gillard, saw China as no threat in a 2013 white paper, which the Chinese said was political nonsense.
So now that Rudd is leader again, will China be viewed as a threat to Australia again? How will this affect Australia's relationship with China?
Australia's attempts to ingratiate, befriend, and placate China are very, very worrying.
I don't like Kevin Rudd's smug religiosity (and his ideas about censorship), but he really is in the know about China. Also, my students all love him because he can speak Chinese.
The CCP is dark, dirty, dangerous, deceitful, dishonest, utterly unscrupulous and completely lacking the loyalty and reciprocity that Gillard assumes because she is Australian. A bit of insight into China's worldview and way of operating would benefit most countries.
Traveler:
Rudd's major at uni was in Asian studies, and he spent three years in Beijing at the Australian Consulate.
rasklnik:
Honestly, I think you will see the rise on intelligent anti-chinese politicians. Not simply those who scream 'red scare' but realize that the CCP has been getting away with murder in its IR, and Economic policies. How many countries besides the former soviet union embargo a product because of a noble prize? Not to mention the Rio Tinto scandal.
-Australia isn't America and they need to realize that China will economically crush them, should they wish. Hope we all wake up and realize this.
In the unwritten law but well-known law of Australia, I cannot answer this question with out being completed plastered, I shall post after having my first six beers then edit it after a few shots of whiskey.
Traveler:
That explains a lot. Rudd and Gillard have been plastered for the last three years.
It seems that Rudd believes the China boom is over, and Australia should diversify away from China
thediplomat.com/pacific-money/2013/06/27/rudd-china-boom-over/
