CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd defended his country's relations with China as "robust" on Monday after a WikiLeaks report he advised the United States it may need to use force to contain China if it failed to conform to global standards of behaviour.
The WikiLeaks website last week started releasing U.S. State Department cables exposing the inner workings of American diplomacy. One of the cables refers to Rudd's March 2009 meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, when Rudd was Australia's prime minister.