By Andrew Bolt Rudd accuses Abbott of lacking the temperament to call the Chinese “rat f@#&ers” Kevin Rudd claims Tony Abbott doesn’t have the temperament for diplomacy: You’ve got to sit back, think and calmly reflect, and then work through what the best decision is, and temperament and judgment and experience are quite important… He doesn’t have a background in this field and sometimes I find in him a bit of an impulsive nature, that is rushing ahead to judgment. You know what his background is ... he’s been in Parliament for 20 years, 19 of which he was the great pugilist, you know and the last 12 months he’s suddenly become the statesman, so the Tony Abbott that I know, having served 15 years in the Parliament with him, is of a different nature. This stuff is complex and in diplomacy, words are bullets. Kevin Rudd, diplomat: Tired and exasperated, surrounded by a knot of Australian officials and press, Rudd began to rage against the Chinese… Was a deal still possible, asked one of the Australians. “Depends whether those rat-f...ing Chinese want to f… us.” Kevin Rudd, statesman: PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has been embarrassed by an account of his phone conversation with US President George Bush that made the American leader look ignorant. The report has drawn a sharp reaction from the Bush Administration. The story in the Weekend Australian played up Mr Rudd’s role in convincing Mr Bush to convene a Group of Twenty (G20) nations meeting in Washington next month on the financial crisis. The degree of detail in the report suggested it must have been informed by sources close to the PM [actually Rudd himself]… The story ... reported that when Mr Rudd argued for using the G20 as the forum for addressing the crisis, “Rudd was then stunned to hear Bush say, ‘What’s the G20?’ “ Now the Washington Post has reported that a US official who monitored the call “denied that Bush made any such remark”. Rudd, who knows words are bullets: Kevin Rudd warned Hillary Clinton to be prepared to use force against China ‘’if everything goes wrong’’, an explosive WikiLeaks cable has revealed. Mr Rudd also told Mrs Clinton during a meeting in Washington on March 24 last year that China was ‘’paranoid’’ about Taiwan and Tibet and that his ambitious plan for an Asia-Pacific community was intended to blunt Chinese influence. Rudd, Mr Judgment: FOREIGN Minister Kevin Rudd and his office privately referred to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as “Spanky Banky”, according to a new book… Rudd, Mr Discreet: PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd witnessed a heated discussion between US President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over Russia’s invasion of a tiny neighbouring country as athletes paraded before them in the Opening Ceremony [of the Beijing Olympics]… “The President and Mr Putin were in animated conversation two seats in front of us and I imagine they had a few things on their agenda,” Mr Rudd said. Mr Rudd said that Mr Bush appeared to be making a strong point to the Russian Prime Minister, even as the world’s elite athletes filed into Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium. Rudd, so much smoother than that “pugilist”: JUST short of a year ago Prime Minister Kevin Rudd chose to snub the Chinese Ambassador to Britain, Fu Ying, by requesting not to sit next to her at a BBC talk show during a G20 meeting in London… Whether our Mandarin-speaking former diplomat Prime Minister gave this incident a second thought is not clear. But he should now because last month Fu was appointed deputy Chinese Foreign Minister, based in Beijing. Rudd, so calmly reflective: Further consternation about Rudd’s international forays came in June 2008 when he gave a speech to a domestic audience revealing his plans to redraw the regional diplomatic and strategic architecture through the establishment of an “Asia Pacific Community” that would include the US, Japan, China, Australia, India, Indonesia and others. Yet not one of these countries had been consulted, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade was oblivious to the news… Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa dismissed Rudd’s foolhardy foray into regional affairs as “another layer, an out-of-nowhere construction, not in concert, not in synergy with what we have”. Rudd, the steady hand: Indonesia has dismissed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s suggestion that the Coalition’s asylum seeker policy could cause “conflict”.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:04:07 +0000
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