Chinese furious at military build-up

By Philip Dorling and Richard Baker
Updated November 9 2012 - 4:41pm, first published December 9 2010 - 2:15pm
China wanted Australia to change white paper ... Kevin Rudd and Hu Jintao, centre, at the G20 summit last year.
China wanted Australia to change white paper ... Kevin Rudd and Hu Jintao, centre, at the G20 summit last year.

THE Rudd government publicly played down reports of a hostile Chinese reaction to the defence white paper released last year, while secretly briefing the US that Beijing had threatened Australia would ''suffer the consequences'' if references to China were not watered down.

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