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Australia PM Gillard smashes Rudd in ballot

Author: charles koon
Date: 02-26-12 20:20

The final count of the ballot: 71 to 31 in favour to the incumbent.

Kevin Rudd has paid for his arrogance and I doubt if a leopard can change its spots. After his behaviour towards Madam Fuying on BBC TV by showing his back to her, which is incominsurate to his then position.

Here is another report on what others think of him:

Rudd return would strain China links, says scholar

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/rudd-return-would-strain-china-links-says-scholar-20120226-1twiy.html

THE return of Kevin Rudd as prime minister would likely cause more friction between Australia and its largest trading partner, China, according to a senior scholar affiliated with the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The warning from Jiang Yuechun, a former diplomat who is now a top official within China's Institute of International Studies, came in an interview with popular Chinese broadcaster Phoenix TV and painted a negative picture of Mr Rudd's reputation in China.

''Kevin Rudd has been broadly supportive of the US's return to Asia and various Japanese designs for the Pacific co-operations - we have had many clashes as a result of that. I think the return of Rudd will create more friction and warning points on regional and strategic issues,'' he said.
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Mr Jiang also pointed to the troubled state of relations between the two nations during Mr Rudd's stint as prime minister. ''We all know that when he was still in power, the clashes between two countries have increased noticeably,'' he said.

This is the latest revelation of Beijing's displeasure at Mr Rudd and the first time that a senior figure from the Chinese foreign policy establishment has come out to openly criticise Mr Rudd.

The Herald revealed that Chinese officials had loudly, but until now privately, voiced their displeasure at Mr Rudd's attitudes and policies towards China.

''The Chinese certainly have Rudd pegged on where he stands vis-a-vis China and presumably he's let them know this anyway,'' said Ralph Cossa, the president of the Pacific Forum in Honolulu, run by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.

During Mr Rudd's time at The Lodge, the relationship between the two countries was rocked by a series of disputes over foreign investment, defence postures, human rights and the arrest of Australian citizens.

Mr Rudd openly criticised Beijing over human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang during an official visit to China and he delivered that message in Chinese. The defence white paper from the Rudd era also suggested that China was a security threat.

The relationship hit a low point in mid-2009, after the Chinese state-owned giant Chinalco failed to acquire a substantial part of Rio Tinto, and the subsequent arrest and conviction of the Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu.

Mr Rudd also lost some of his lustre as the first Chinese-speaking Western leader in China.

An online news site ran the editorial that ''your average Chinese is unlikely to mourn or disappoint over the resignation of Kevin Rudd as the foreign minister. In fact, the evaluation of Rudd, the first Chinese-speaking foreign leader, on the Chinese social media is largely negative.''

One blogger was quoted saying that ''because he knows Chinese, that is why he knows how to make an enemy of China''.

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