Of course,

Are the Chinese really serious? We should mind our own business and with great regret, decline the offer.However our politicians seem susceptible to flattery, remember Howard's excrutiating "Deputy Sheriff" quote. What would we call ourselves, the "Moderating Mouse" perhaps?

the heights of absurdity
to even think us and china need a moderator

both have ample diplomatic interactions[snow [us treasurer is known to have visited china 20 times alone in the last year he was emplyed with the bank he recently gave huge resque funds to]

lest we forget the elite have special rules
intrests and collusions

dont believe everything you read in a newspaper [or watch on the rube tube]
kevin will know his limits

or will work quietly [hard to believe i know] behind the scenes.
as he should

but china dosnt need usa [really]

it is usa that needs china [who holds trillions of us securities, and signed many long term contracts [in us dollar values]

please realise govt needs to be looking like it is serving its people
thus create media beat ups or leaks or rumours so as govt leaderships seem to be seen doing , protecting us from unrealisable fears [they beat their spin up , much like sports team pre game spin]

or to get our attention away from real news

what speck of difference our thoughts could make
is non egsistant

No, Australia should not.

But, its right up Chairman Rudds alley. Send him and his cronnies in to save the day. Woo-hoo, Captain K.rudd and his silver sloganeering tongue and his pursed lips of propaganda to the rescue. Send in his better three-quarters too. lm sure the Chinese and Americans would highly value and respect her history of exploitative labour-hire practices. Plus no doubt they would respect a dynamic duo like her and her hubby who worked a slew of connections, contact and largesse into a person combined fortune of $60m. Also, they would surely respect the working class credentials of K.rudd. A simple smooth, silky, no-blister, no-callous handshake would be proof that he is a genuine party man of the people.

Failng that he can send in the Queens rep and a bunch of artistes and sentimentalists to wooooo them with their inspiring feel good lying dross.

Anything to feel better about doing nothing.

Yes we should never do that.

Sorry to go against the leftist multiculturalist strain on this forum but Chinese culture is not worth fighting for.

It is worth smashing right now. No workers rights, slavery - yes, just ask the leftist UN (oh, and don't bother pointing out Nike or Reebok...western companies pay higher rates which is why they line up for miles to work there...and...western govs pressure companies in China to push for increased wages or threaten to not allow them to trade there).

Modern day China is like old Britain in the industrial age. Worse though. 5000 a year die in mines in China.

US values, well, western values, are worth fighting for. Treaty should never occur.

Europe and the US (were too small, although could draft a million into army) should see the horrible twisted non-western world for what it is and occupy all of it.