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...delivered no substantial results to reduce carbon emissions. I understand the realpolitik of managing the Australian-U.S.-China relationship, but Rudd is the master of self-promotion: great on words but short on action. I would have called him Mr. Posturing, not Mr. World. Martin Gordon, CANBERRA...
...delivered no substantial results to reduce carbon emissions. I understand the realpolitik of managing the Australia-U.S.-China relationship, but Rudd is the master of self-promotion: great on words but short on action. I would have called him Mr. Posturing, not Mr. World. Martin Gordon, Canberra...
...beer, Rudd comes across as more buttoned-up than many of his predecessors. Talking to TIME, he dropped in a casual reference to Burke (that would be Edmund, the conservative philosopher, not Robert, the doomed Australian explorer). His Twitter feeds - a sample from April 14: "Working hard in sunny Canberra today" - have been mocked as terminally boring...
...involved in his vision. But it also speaks to a general truth about Australian identity. "Australians really do want to exert maximum effort to be taken seriously in the world," says William Tow, an expert on Australia's Asia-Pacific relations at the Australian National University in Canberra. The Lowy Institute's Fullilove puts it another way: "Australians are joiners. We're always thinking about what new international organizations can be established so that we can join them...
...have Rio Tinto's point man on the iron-ore price talks arrested now, on charges of violating the state-secrets law, stunned Canberra - as well as much of the foreign business community in China. "People here are intensely interested to see if there's any substance to these charges, and to what extent the government will make them public," said the director of one foreign-business association in China, who did not want to speak on the record. "If this is seen as political, it could obviously have a chilling effect." A Rio spokeswoman said the company "is aware...