now look at the lady rudd snubbed

oh dear...........

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Another reminder to be nice to the office boy:

JUST short of a year ago Prime Minister Kevin Rudd chose to snub the Chinese Ambassador to Britain, Fu Ying, by requesting not to sit next to her at a BBC talk show during a G20 meeting in London.

Rudd brushed aside this slight by explaining that he preferred to sit next to another interviewee, British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.

Unfazed at suggestions that this might have been taken the wrong way by Fu, Rudd explained that it was natural that he ?wouldn?t mind parking himself? next to his friend, Miliband.

Whether our Mandarin-speaking former diplomat Prime Minister gave this incident a second thought is not clear. But he should now because last month Fu was appointed deputy Chinese Foreign Minister, based in Beijing . (For what it is worth Miliband?s Labour government seems set for defeat at the next election.)

And remember: diplomacy is what Rudd does best.