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	<title>Crikey &#187; diplomacy</title>
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		<title>Missing the point on WikiLeaks</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/03/like-mp3s-wikileaks-will-change-govt-so-why-has-everyone-missed-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/03/like-mp3s-wikileaks-will-change-govt-so-why-has-everyone-missed-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Assange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert McClelland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=190486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The WikiLeaks cables -- far more significant than anyone has acknowledged -- will change governments. But both the mainstream media and the federal government appear to be completely oblivious to the fact.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>90</slash:comments>
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		<title>Woolcott on WikiLeaks: idle diplomatic gossip overblown &#8230; and maybe useful</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/03/woolcott-on-wikileaks-idle-diplomatic-gossip-overblown-and-maybe-useful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/03/woolcott-on-wikileaks-idle-diplomatic-gossip-overblown-and-maybe-useful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Everingham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks embassy cables]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=190529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s most experienced diplomat has branded the reaction to the leaking of diplomatic cables in the WikiLeaks scandal as "overblown" and says most of the information is nothing more than gossip.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cablegate changes everything</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/crikey-says-cablegate-changes-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/crikey-says-cablegate-changes-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cablegate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Assange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US embassy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks embassy cables]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=190131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another set of revelations ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Australia vs. Israel: round one</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/25/australia-vs-israel-round-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/25/australia-vs-israel-round-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media wrap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mossad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Smith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=140912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Daily Media Wrap</b>: The Government has booted an Israeli diplomat out of Australia over the use of fake Australian passports. A bold act of diplomatic bravery, or just bowing down to the Arab world? This one's just heating up.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>63</slash:comments>
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		<title>Le Monde: Australia is a small fish in a big pond</title>
		<link>http://mondediplo.com/2010/05/11australia</link>
		<comments>http://mondediplo.com/2010/05/11australia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 01:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How the world sees us]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Pacific]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=138171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia may be a heavy hitter in the South Pacific region, but on the global playing field, it's a 12-pound weakling -- dwarfed by China and little more than a pawn of the US, writes <b>Olivier Zajec</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Copenhagen and the new global hierarchy</title>
		<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-20/the-new-global-hierarchy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-20/the-new-global-hierarchy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=107687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Copenhagen has revealed the new world order in global politics: the US has lost influence, China is the big bully, Africa sticks together and small nations can veto anything they dislike, says <b>Leslie Gelb</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bill and Hillary&#8217;s worlds collide</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112503877.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR2009112503877.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=101651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She's the Secretary of State, he's a former President; both spend their time flying around the world to lobby and negotiate with world powers -- can the Clintons keep their worlds from colliding? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Obama&#8217;s China trip killed Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29626.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29626.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate treaty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copenhagen Climate Change Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emissions targets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite all the fanfare around Obama's trip to China, he failed to make any headway with the country in securing support for serious emissions targets, says <b>Steve Clemons</b>. As a result, Copenhagen is now dead.]]></description>
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		<title>China fails to fall in love with Obama</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125835068967050099.html</link>
		<comments>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125835068967050099.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media censorship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama is on a diplomatic visit to China, but is struggling to win the country's citizens over with his usually irresistible charms. Perhaps it's because he's being kept on a tight leash and well away from the media spotlight.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stop sucking up to Israel, America</title>
		<link>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1124928.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1124928.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[op-eds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US foreign policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Israel is spoiled, arrogant and condescending country, says <b>Gideon Levy</b>, and it will continue to behave like one until the US stops flattering and fawning all over it. Washington needs to learn to say "no".]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>White House and Fox News call a truce</title>
		<link>http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/truce_between_white_house_and_fox_news_141565.asp</link>
		<comments>http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/truce_between_white_house_and_fox_news_141565.asp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rumour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White House vs. Fox News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a "very reliable source", Fox News SVP Michael Clemente and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs have met to bury the hatchet over on <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/29/interest-rate-rises-predicted/">their recent spat</a>. Aww, just when it was getting good!]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Clinton convinced Karzai to cave</title>
		<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6883040.ece</link>
		<comments>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6883040.ece#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=94207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Negotiations with Afghani President Hamid Karzai to enter into a runoff election have been underway for months, but according to the <em>Times</em>, it was a telephone call three days ago from Hillary Clinton that finally saw him relent.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Has the US agreed to stop criticising Russia&#8217;s human rights abuses?</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/13/hillary-clinton-dmitry-medvedev-talks</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/13/hillary-clinton-dmitry-medvedev-talks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kommersant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=92720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Russian newspaper <em>Kommersant</em>, the White House has agreed to stop mentioning Russia's shabby human rights record, and ease up on the "democracy" evangalising, in return for better relations with the country.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/13/hillary-clinton-dmitry-medvedev-talks/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Turkey and Armenia kiss and make up (just don&#8217;t mention the genocide)</title>
		<link>http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/10/20091010234617250516.html</link>
		<comments>http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/10/20091010234617250516.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[armenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turkey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=92300</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Armenia and Turkey have ended almost a century of mutual hatred, signing a peace deal that will see them open their borders to each other. But the two countries went immediately back to squabbling again. One step forward, two steps back?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/10/20091010234617250516.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Unlike Bush, Obama gives Dalai Lama the cold shoulder</title>
		<link>http://gawker.com/5374257/unlike-bush-obama-wont-meet-dalai-lama</link>
		<comments>http://gawker.com/5374257/unlike-bush-obama-wont-meet-dalai-lama#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dalai lama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tibet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=91168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2009/01/obama-had-the-dalai-lamas-scar.html">used to be BFFs</a>, but worried about upsetting China, US President Obama has now <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100403262.html?hpid=topnews">put off</a> meeting with exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, drawing criticism from <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/10/04/treading_carefully_on_china_and_tibet/">both sides</a> of politics. Even Dubbya <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7046445.stm">didn't risk</a> that kind of bad karma.]]></description>
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		<title>Are we over-reacting on Iran?</title>
		<link>http://www.newsweek.com/id/216702/page/1</link>
		<comments>http://www.newsweek.com/id/216702/page/1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear deterrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear threat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=90852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The West must stop exaggerating the Iranian threat, says <em>Newsweek</em> editor <b>Fareed Zakaria</b>: the Middle East has had nuclear weapons for decades, and the world hasn't ended yet. There's no need to go in with all guns blazing.]]></description>
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		<title>My dinner with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/25/iran-nuclear-plant-ahmadinejad-new-york</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/25/iran-nuclear-plant-ahmadinejad-new-york#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[diplomacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Kinzer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=89246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He's possibly the world's most hated man -- and <em>The Guardian</em>'s <b>Stephen Kinzer</b> just broke bread with him. So what does a table of journos and diplomats discuss with Iran's embattled leader? Not the Holocaust, for one.]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary&#8217;s secret conference on Iran</title>
		<link>http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/03/clinton_hosts_iran_secure_video_conference_with_state_iran_hands_worldwide</link>
		<comments>http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/03/clinton_hosts_iran_secure_video_conference_with_state_iran_hands_worldwide#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently held a secure video conference to discuss Iran with 20 State Department officials from around the world. <em>Foreign Policy</em> dishes the inside dirt. ]]></description>
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		<title>Clinton just another pawn in North Korea&#8217;s nuclear game?</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/04/AR2009080401486.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/04/AR2009080401486.html?hpid=opinionsbox1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=78057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton's sudden swoop in to North Korea to rescue a pair of US journalists may seem like a victory for diplomacy, freedom and the American Way, but for North Korea, it was simply a successful propaganda project -- and the US played right into its hands, says <b>John R. Bolton</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama: US-China ties will shape the 21st century</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/obama-us-china-ties-will-shape-the-21st-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/28/obama-us-china-ties-will-shape-the-21st-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the full transcript of Barack Obama's speech at the US-China economic and strategic dialogue taking place in Washington.]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s invite China to the space party</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovery.com/news_space/2009/07/is-it-time-to-invite-china-to-the-space-party.html</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.discovery.com/news_space/2009/07/is-it-time-to-invite-china-to-the-space-party.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China has spaceships, scientific know-how, money and man-power. Could bringing them into orbit with the US's space program build a base for better relations between the two countries?]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s China headache</title>
		<link>http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hus-kevin-rudds-biggest-headache-china-arrest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hus-kevin-rudds-biggest-headache-china-arrest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd is facing his first big diplomatic crisis, and unfortunately for him, it's with his BFF, China. But it's a situation entirely of his own making, says <b>Tory Maguire</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>So much for a Mandarin-speaking PM</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25762495-28737,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25762495-28737,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rudd has tried to dismiss the boiling diplomatic issue of Australian Stern Hu's ongoing detention in China as  "a consular case". As if, says <b>Jennifer Hewett</b>: "This is a full-blown, fast-moving crisis." ]]></description>
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		<title>A few words on diplomacy with China</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/10/crikey-says-39/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/10/crikey-says-39/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Chinese proverb for Kevin Rudd: A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction. ]]></description>
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		<title>How the US is brewing imperialism with disengagement</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/07/rundle-how-the-us-is-brewing-imperialism-with-disengagement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/07/rundle-how-the-us-is-brewing-imperialism-with-disengagement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media around the world have been screaming that Biden had given the green light for an attack on Iran in his interview on 'This Week' with George Stephanopolous.]]></description>
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