Everybody sucks up to China
He has experience with working in China:
From the Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... ?mod=googlenews_wsj
Mr. Rudd grew up in a dairy-farming family in Australia's Queensland state and studied Chinese history in college. He joined the country's diplomatic corps and served in the Australian embassy in Beijing in the 1980s. He also worked as a China consultant with accounting firm KPMG and emerged as a Labor Party star in part because of his foreign-policy experience.