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In honour of Kevin Rudd's victory as Prime Minister yesterday, I re-present hmatkin's homage to our new Prime Minister on YouTube.

I think this is item is very funny at an ironic level, given

• our new Prime Minister's fluency in Mandarin
• the neo-communist bogey which his political opponents kept dragging out in an attempt to discredit his side of things
• at an entirely different level, the "Chinglish" captions and their apparent discrepancy to the soundtrack (which a YouTube correspondent states is a commentary on the China-Vietnam war of the 1970s)

This film reminds me of every high school history lesson I had to sit through in the 1970s, when the late Brother Rupert of the Marist Brothers warmed us spotty and beardless lads of the red menace about to sweep down from the north.  (And Kevin Rudd is am ex-Marist boy too.)

This is very well done!  Enjoy.