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The Importance of Friendship in Australia
When I was Prime Minister, I sat down with one of Australia's leading synologists. And through the Chinese Confucian tradition, understood there in fact two definitions of friendship. One is Pang-yu, which means that it suffers from gross overuse to the point that it becomes denuded of meaning. The other is Jung-yu, a term which is based on depth, candour and when necessary mutual remonstration. So our Chinese Communist friends are not terribly happy with the idea of Jung-yu. They much prefer compliant pungules. Do I agree with your Marxist-Leninist system? Not at all. Am I a universal human rights guy? That's me