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Professor the Honourable Bob Carr 鲍勃·卡尔教授 “Australia and the China-US Relationships” “澳大利亚与中美关系” S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) Distinguished Public Lecture 南洋理工大学拉惹勒南国际研究院 杰出公开讲座 October 15, 2014 2014年10月15 日 Singapore 新加坡 It’s an honour to be in Singapore, a privilege to be talking in this Distinguished Public Lecture program. As Australia’s Foreign Minister I had quoted several times an acute observation by Lee Kuan Yew. It was on the question of the future character of China. He said: Peace and security in the Asia-Pacific will turn on whether China emerges as a xenophobic, chauvinistic force, bitter and hostile to the West because it tried to slow down or abort its development, or whether it is educated and involved in the ways of the world -- more cosmopolitan, more internationalized and outward looking.1 I ceased to be Foreign Minister after the Gillard government was defeated on September 7, 2013. I was representing Australia at the G20 in St Petersburg. As the polling booths at home closed I found myself in Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, laying flowers on a memorial to the dead of the Second World War. I found myself reflecting on those mass graves – half a million people buried here – and how trivial it was to be voted out of government in a peacetime election compared to the mighty drama that was played out in St Petersburg between 1941 and 1944. 1 Lee Kuan Yew quoted in Graham Allison, Robert D. Blackwill and Ali Wyne (eds), Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (MIT Press, 2013).