Karnal wrote on Nov 9
th, 2024 at 10:24pm:
China-loving?
Shurely shome mishtake. You must have missed all the rat fuckers furor.
KRudd's been warning Uncle about the Chows since Hillary was Secretary of State. He's been freaking them out for years.
He would have gone on Fox as a China hawk if he didn't hate Rupert so much.
Short memory, is it?
Retired Navy Capt. Jim Fanell, for one, strongly disagrees.
“For over two decades, Kevin Rudd has demonstrated his pro-[China] leanings,” said Mr. Fanell, a former director of intelligence for the Pacific Fleet.
"Beyond that he’s frequently written commentary for the PRC press, such as China Daily; he has also gone around the world speaking about the benefits of engagement with Beijing, despite never fully acknowledging the strategic trajectory of the Chinese Communist Party’s expansionist campaigns to complete the Great Rejuvenation of China,”
he said, using the abbreviation for People’s Republic of China.
The national rejuvenation campaign, Mr. Fanell said, has included the seizure of territory the Chinese government unilaterally assesses to be their own, from Taiwan and Japan’s Senkaku Islands in the South China Sea to disputed territory with India, Mongolia and even Russia, he said.
Mr. Fanell, co-author of the recently published book “Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure,” said Mr. Rudd has played the role of a China hand successfully in moving from prime minister to ambassador. But “he has all along behind the scenes been an advocate for Beijing’s grand strategy,” the retired officer told Inside the Ring.
Mr. Rudd’s pro-Beijing position was highlighted by a recorded conversation between Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell in Tonga last month.
Mr. Campbell was overheard telling Mr. Albanese that Mr. Rudd had lobbied the U.S. government not to get involved or sponsor a Pacific island policing initiative that would help coordinate anti-crime efforts among the islands. The deputy secretary said he spoke to Mr. Rudd and “he asked us not to do it.”
The policing initiative was launched by Australia a day after the conversation was posted on X by New Zealand reporter Lydia Lewis on Aug. 27.
In his letter to The Washington Times, Mr. Rudd did not address the issue of why he derailed the U.S. role in the police program. Instead, he said he regularly holds discussions with the Biden administration on Australia’s foreign policy priorities in the region and welcomes U.S. support for the Pacific islands, including policing.
Of his views on China, Mr. Rudd said his Sept. 4 speech to the National War College was an example of his positions.
In that speech, he argued that Chinese President Xi Jinping is reviving Marxism-Leninism, which is a “framework that causes Xi and the [Chinese Communist Party] to conclude that history is on China’s side, and that the capitalist West, led by the United States, will be swept aside, heralding, in turn, the birth of a new era in world history.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/sep/11/inside-ring-kevin-rudd-friend-o...
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