Now they are just trolling us: Beijing’s CCP newspaper praises Labor PM Kevin Rudd for attacking Donald Trump – after months of threats to ‘destroy’ Australia’s economy
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China’s Communist Party newspaper bizarrely praised former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd for attacking Donald Trump.
The Global Times propaganda website has endorsed Mr Rudd as an ‘astute’ observer on US politics.
The praise of the Mandarin-speaking ex-PM follows months of negative editorials by the English-language Global Times, which is seen as Beijing’s mouthpiece on foreign policy to the world.
The Communist Party publication has run a campaign of intimidation against Australia over its calls for a COVID-19 inquiry, in recent days warning Chinese tourists would stop visiting.
China’s Communist Party newspaper has praised former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd (pictured left with wife Therese Rein) for attacking Donald Trump
China, Australia’s biggest trading partner, has already slapped 80 per cent tariffs on barley and banned beef from four abattoirs.
As Labor leader in 2008, Mr Rudd was a vocal critic of China’s human rights abuses in Tibet and in a leaked video in 2013 suggested Australia’s biggest trading partner was out to ‘rat f*** us’.
However, more than a decade later, the Chinese government controlled Global Times newspaper this week had nothing but praise for Mr Rudd, who is now the president of the New York-based Asia Society Policy Institute.
‘As the head of a world-renowned think tank, the Asia Society Policy Institute based in New York, Rudd has been making dynamic and astute observations on the dramatic events that have been unfolding in the US,’ it said.
The Chinese government controlled Global Times newspaper this week had nothing but praise for Mr Rudd, who is now the president of the New York-based Asia Society Policy Institute
The man who served two stints as prime minister earned praise from China’s propaganda newspaper for telling the ABC in April US President Donald Trump had displayed an ‘appalling lack of domestic preparedness’ in handling coronavirus, adding he had engaged in a ‘political strategy’ to ‘distract attention’.
‘Kevin Rudd, Australia’s former prime minister, recently dubbed Donald Trump as the ‘most destructive president in history’,’ the Global Times editorial said.
‘Rudd was right in pointing out that Trump had been maximising the politics of division when American society is desperate to grapple out of the present quagmire of the intensifying racial tension and the exacerbating public health crisis.’
The Global Times editorial had attacked Prime Minister Scott Morrison for advocating an inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which the World Health Assembly later endorsed.
He was compared unfavorably with Mr Rudd.
‘What has posed as a sharp contrast is Australia’s current prime minister, Scott Morrison, who has been unstintingly pandering to Trump’s oftentimes irrational tactics,’ it said.
‘Morrison’s recent series of diplomatic acts have reflected his keenness to collude with the White House’s fanatic anti-China policies as a US dutiful deputy sheriff in the Asia-Pacific region.’
China’s so-called Wolf Warrior diplomacy intensified in late April when its Ambassador to Australia Cheng Jingye threatened the Chinese would boycott Australian wine, beef, university education and tourism.
The Global Times editorial had attacked Prime Minister Scott Morrison for advocating an inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which the World Health Assembly later endorsed. He was compared unfavorably with Mr Rudd
The Communist Party publication has run a campaign of intimidation against Australia over its calls for a COVID-19 inquiry, in recent days warning Chinese tourists would stop visiting