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According to Rudd, the world faces three dominant issues in the near future: financial stability in the aftermath of the financial crisis; global sustainable development and climate change; and the rapid development of China as a global economic leader.

play a major role as the international system struggles to deal with the effects of the European Financial Crisis.

Similarly, as a country already well- experienced with the dangers of air pollution and carbon emissions, China could help promote the importance of a global climate change agenda.

"The international community must accept that it's entirely legitimate for China to have a louder voice at the global negotiating table,"

We must also recognise the wider complicity many of us have in disability policies. The government would hardly be pursuing them, against a significant minority, unless it calculated it had public opinion on its side – opinion prepared to go along with the view that in hard times, disabled people should no longer expect so much and need to tighten their belts too.

There is little chance of a similar protest against disability discrimination by medal winners at the London Paralympic Games. But for many disabled people such a high-profile protest would be timely, in the face of a tidal wave of prejudice and discrimination against disabled people.