Tim HARCOURT

China and Australia, whose Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is a fluent Mandarin speaker, enjoy a cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship, with trade and a healthy respect for differences in culture at the center. Australian tourism officials predict that by 2013, one million Chinese tourists a year will be visiting Australia—if the global financial climate improves.
China and Australia have an abiding relationship built on mutual trust and benefit. Even before President Richard