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Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd denies he tried to punch a Chinese negotiator at COP15, there’s no doubt he had a bad time.

COP has always been an expensive exercise in futility

MARK RILEY: This COP is doomed to be as pointless as the others. But at least it can’t be as bad as the 2009 fiasco that brought the phrase ‘Chinese rat-f....ers’ into the lexicon, courtesy of Kevin Rudd.

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