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BEIJING: The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has emerged from top-level talks to declare ''the relationship with China is in good shape'', despite pushing Australia's concerns about businessmen detained in Chinese jails.
Ms Gillard squarely raised questions about the Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu and tourism entrepreneur Matthew Ng, who has been charged but not prosecuted in Guangzhou, and also won plaudits for stabilising the relationship and focusing on its economic strengths.
''My argument today is that we can be positive about our relationship and that we should be ambitious for its future,'' Ms Gillard told business leaders in a speech last night.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/economic-ties-ease-tensions-with-china-20110426-1dv7n.html#ixzz1KfnOsKGP
- By Gus Leonisky at 27 Apr 2011 - 9:04am
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prosperity...
Prime Minister Julia Gillard repeatedly said before her North Asian trip she would raise human rights concerns with China and she has done that privately and publicly.
Last night in a speech to a business forum in Beijing, Ms Gillard also used the opportunity to tell China it should bring its influence to bear on North Korea and encourage it to get rid of its nuclear weapons.
And later today Ms Gillard will meet with president Hu Jintao where she is expected to raise defence and security issues.
Ms Gillard was the keynote speaker at the Australia China Economic and Cooperation Trade Forum, telling the audience that in just over 30 years two-way trade with China has gone from $100 million to $100 billion.
And she says China's boom is good for everyone.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/27/3200851.htm
"a fool's errand"...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has criticised China's crackdown on dissent as "a fool's errand", saying Beijing is trying to halt history.
In an interview with The Atlantic, Mrs Clinton also called the nation's human rights record "deplorable".
She defended US dealings with Beijing, saying: "We live in the real world."
The BBC's Kim Ghattas in Washington says Mrs Clinton seemed to suggest the Chinese system itself would collapse and that democracy was inevitable.
The article quotes Mrs Clinton as saying last month that China's leaders were "worried" that the wave of pro-democracy protests overtaking the Middle East would spread east to China.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13353199
"Trying to halt history?"... A bit rich coming from one of the "assassination team" player... China can do better, sure... But the USA can also do better on human rights too...
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if the shoes do not fit the feet...
A confidential cable posted on whistleblowing website WikiLeaks says Chinese officials "sought answers" on how the Australian Government had been handling human rights issues.
The cable is believed to have come from the US embassy in Canberra in 2009.
It reports on Australian talks with Chinese officials who visited the country earlier that year as part of the Australia-China Human Rights Dialogue.
The cable says Chinese delegates wanted the Australian Government to explain its treatment of Aborigines, specifically in regard to the Northern Territory intervention.
Also on the Chinese agenda were conditions at the Christmas Island detention centre, the handling of the trial of suspected terrorist aide Mohamed Haneef and government attempts to block internet pornography.
The cable notes that Australian officials, in turn, wanted the Chinese to justify the "executions" and torture of human rights advocates, organ harvesting and media restrictions in the country.
The document contains a comment about the federal intervention in the Territory being a case of "one size does not fit all".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-02/20110902china-wikileaks-human-rights/2868590
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sack the head goons at asio...
Apparently ....
Sack 'nutter' spy chiefs to fix relations with Beijing, Paul Keating urgeshttps://www.smh.com.au › Politics › Federal › Australia votes
15 hours ago - Former prime minister Paul Keating has launched an extraordinary ... Earlier this year, ASIO head Duncan Lewis rejected suggestions the ....
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