China knows while Australia in the dark
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (L) meets with Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Canberra, capital of Australia, March 21, 2009. (Xinhua/Liu Jiansheng)
On Saturday 21 March 2009 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had lunch with Li Changchun, a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party, at The Lodge in Canberra. Chinese news agency Xinhua reported this within a few hours with a report in English and photos on their website.
The news was not broken in Australia until Tuesday 24 March when it was reported in The Australian.
This raises some important questions about why preferential access was given to the Chinese media while Australian media were not even informed of the meeting. One might also ask why the Australian media remained unaware of the meeting for so long when it was reported in English by the media in China and easily available via the internet.
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