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Australia's fraught relationship with China takes another turn.
AFTER Kevin Rudd, Australia’s Mandarin-speaking prime minister, came to power in late 2007 the country’s relations with China seemed set to take an upward turn. But the much-anticipated love-in has failed to happen. On Tuesday August 18th Australia’s government announced that China had cancelled a visit by He Yafei, a foreign-affairs minister, earlier this month. He had been invited to a summit of Pacific island leaders in north Queensland, at which Mr Rudd hoped to discuss his plan for a new Asia-Pacific regional body involving China. Instead China sent a lowlier official.
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