Rudd Brings his Treatise on Friendship

A year ago, Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd was affixing his signature on bilateral agreements with high-level Chinese dignitaries in South Canberra as Prime Minister. Ahead of a trip to Beijing, Rudd discussed the continuation of the most signature elements in his foreign policy.

Rudd described the current state of bilateral relations, emphasizing Australia's strong commercial ties with China and couching occasional rifts between the two countries as both "normal" and manageable.