On 10 avr, 13:37, Sir John Howard <sirjohnhow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://news.smh.com.au/china-ignores-calls-from-rudd/20080410-2560.html
>
> China has ignored Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's appeal to address human
> rights abuses in Tibet, responding with a warning to foreign
> governments to butt out of its internal affairs.
>
> Mr Rudd brought up Tibet and the Olympics during a meeting with
> China's Premier Wen Jiabao but his call for a dialogue to resolve the
> situation peacefully was ignored.
>
> Foreign governments, China's foreign ministry said, had no right to
> interfere in the country's internal affairs.
>
> "The Tibetan affairs are purely China's internal affairs, and none of
> the foreign governments or groups have the right to interfere in
> that," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told re****ters.
>
> After meeting with Mr Wen for more than two-and-a-half hours, Mr Rudd
> described the discussions as "good and solid" but admitted the pair
> had failed to see eye to eye on the question of human rights in Tibet,
> which he bluntly stated was a "significant problem".
>
> "It's quite fair to say that the Chinese government in its discussions
> with me ... their position today was consistent with the public
> position China has adopted in recent times," Mr Rudd said.
>
> "We have a different view, that is quite plain."
>
> Mr Rudd indicated he wanted to use Australia's position as a friend of
> China to tell it some hard truths.
>
> He remains positive that there are still op****tunities to convince
> China to move its position on Tibet.
>
> "We have still a way to go between now and August and all people of
> goodwill will be engaging all relevant parties, including the Chinese,
> to see if we can act constructively on this," Mr Rudd said.
>
> Chinese language newspapers have given reasonable coverage to Mr
> Rudd's four-day visit but they failed to make mention of his strong
> position on Tibet, only re****ting that he was against a boycott of the
> Beijing Olympics.
>
> Chinese government officials are believed to have "advised" local
> media against re****ting the comments on Tibet.
>
> Mr Rudd maintained that the relation****p with China wasn't a "zero sum
> game".
>
> "I have always had the view that the best way to prosecute our
> relation****p with China is to be broad-based about it and not to
> pretend that problems don't exist when they do but to address those in
> a very straightforward way and at the same time not regard those
> problems as impeding the development of the rest of the relation****p,"
> he said.
>
> "I'm a great optimist when it comes to the future of the Australia-
> China relation****p."
>
> While Australia was rebuffed on human rights, the leaders have agreed
> to elevate cooperation on climate change to a ministerial level
> partner****p, and to restart "frozen" free trade negotiations.
>
> Mr Rudd said the two countries would begin a regular, semi-annual
> dialogue based on intensifying cooperation to reach a post-2012
> agreement on ways to cut global emissions, and looking at the
> development of low emission technologies.
>
> Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, who is in Beijing with the prime
> minister, will lead the Australian discussions.
>
> Australia and China will also resume negotiations on a free trade
> deal, which began in 2005 but have since stalled.
>
> "Calling a spade a spade ... they kind of got bogged in the sand," Mr
> Rudd said.
>
> He said a free trade agreement, which could offer Australia access to
> China's huge market of 1.3 billion people, was im****tant to both
> countries.
>
> "We are both committed to ensuring this is a broadly-based,
> comprehensive and substantive free trade agreement," Mr Rudd said.
>
> Trade Minister Simon Crean will be visiting China within the month to
> work with his Chinese counterparts on a detailed list of obstacles
> that need to be cleared to move forward with the agreement.
>
> As well, China will consider a proposal from Mr Rudd to expand the
> number of Australian funds managers who can operate in the Chinese
> market.
>
> "Currently one of our funds managers has effectively a licence to
> operate here and we need to expand that further," he said.
>
> Mr Rudd met Mr Wen in the opulent surrounds of Beijing's Great Hall of
> the People, where he took part in an inspection of the honour guard
> involving more than 100 members of China's armed forces.
>
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>
> I wonder how long before the gooks boot KRudd out of China again.
China does not care about Mr Rude, and for obvious reasons indeed !
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