greg sheridan: Rudd must charm India

nov 11th, 2009

of course the mandarin-spewing convict-descendant rudd is going to do no such thing. he thinks white people still rule india (oh, i forgot, they do, never mind.)

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From: Shahryar

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/rudd-must-charm-india/story-e6frg6zo-1225796669514 Rudd must charm India Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor  From:The Australian  November 12, 2009 12:00AM KEVIN Rudd has a lot to do in India in his very short visit this week: a new agreement on defence co-operation, some agreeable waffle on climate change, something on energy security, perhaps some progress towards a free trade agreement. Anything, in fact, to push the relationship some distance along the road to where it should be. But most of all he has to counter the colossal loss in Australian soft power involved in the publicity from the series of assaults on Indian students in Melbourne and Sydney. It would be difficult to overstate the enormous damage to Australia's reputation in India. It is the harder to bear because it results so entirely from policy failures by the commonwealth and Victorian governments. ... deleted (including stuff about shashi tharoor interview with sheridan)