Rudd' s Mandarin impresses Chinese president

One of the topics of leisurely conversation with friends during my recent three-day visit to Singapore was why Down Under's Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd chose to learn Mandarin or the Chinese language in the 1970s and also how has he managed to master it to the degree that even China's President Hu Jintao was " stunned ".

Multilingualism as national asset, not liability