U.S. Defense Chief and Australians Insist Alliance Is Strong
By admin | February 25, 2008
This from the New York Times: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and top Australian officials insisted Saturday that the security alliance between the United States and Australia had not frayed despite Australia’s recent pledge to remove all combat forces from Iraq …They also brushed aside questions about whether Australia’s growing economic ties to China would influence the country’s defense policy toward Beijing. Mr. Smith, the foreign minister, even pointed out how much the Bush administration had tied the American economy to the Chinese market. “Australia’s economic engagement with China is only beaten by the U.S.’s economic engagement with China,” he said.
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Gates sees continuity in US relations with Australia
By admin | February 25, 2008
Caught this article about US/Australian/Chinese relationson the SBS News website…
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Stolen generations apology makes news in China
By admin | February 14, 2008
News of the Rudd Government’s apology to the stolen generations made headlines worldwide, including half a dozen articles on the chinaview.cn website - check out the main one here.
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Lu Kewen: ‘like a big brother next door’
By admin | February 6, 2008
I just caught this snippet on The Australian website from Lin Guanzhen, translation editor of Rudd Biography: “Through the biography, I have gained a feeling that Lu Kewen is like a big brother next door — born in a poor family, one of several children, worked hard, like any poor family in China. I think Chinese readers will learn from him - rely on yourself alone, and win success.”
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Lu Kewen Bio hits the blogsphere
By admin | February 6, 2008
Australian political blogger Ninglun blogs about the Chinese reaction to the LuKewen biography.
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Rudd translates into a legend
By admin | February 2, 2008
Rowan Callick, The Australian newspaper’s Chinese correspondent reports that the Chinese translation of Kevin Rudd’s biography is proving quite popular.
“THE latest Chinese blockbuster is not about a boy wizard, although the hero of the tale looks a bit like him. Appropriately, for the Chinese Year of the Rat, it’s about a politician - Lu Kewen, better known here as Kevin Rudd.”
Apparently Fujian Education Press is so convinced the “legendary life” of Lu Kewen will run off the shelves it has ordered its biggest ever print run.
The Australian edition has only sold 5000 copies since its launch in the middle of 2007, but the publishers of the Chinese translation expect to sell more than 10,000.
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China hails the legends of Rudd
By admin | February 2, 2008
The Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt blogs about the ‘legends’ of Kevin Rudd as published in the Chinese translation of his biography. View the comments at the Herald Sun website.
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‘Kevin Judd’ named himself Lu Kewen: Chinese Govt
By admin | January 9, 2008
The China Elections and Governance website is reporting that the Australian Prime Minister gave himself the name ‘Lu Kewen’ when he was at university:
“His contacts with Chinese culture began when he was 11 years old. His majors at university were Chinese and Chinese history, when he gave himself the Chinese name “Lu Kewen,” the site reports.
The site also refers the the Australian PM as ‘Kevin Judd’, not sure how straight their facts are there…
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Promotional Video for Lu Kewen
By admin | January 6, 2008
View Chinese video of Lu Kewen:
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Kevin Rudd speaking Mandarin to welcome Jintao Hu in APEC
By admin | September 6, 2007
Video of Lu Kewen speaking Mandarin to welcome Jintao Hu at APEC
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