Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
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China's Made in China 2025 strategy, which is the largest scale exercise in any nation's industrial policy seen in economic history.
So what's their theory of the case?
This massive investment in industry and in leading edge technologies will ultimately produce a new wave of productivity in the economy, which will create a new wave of wealth, including in the related services sectors.
But this will take a while to wash through.
In the meantime, maintain surveillance and do a certain amount to keep the economy and growth as stable as possible.
For example, the property sector has been the one in which most Chinese citizens have had their savings over the last 20 years.
Over the last five years, the property market has collapsed through the floor through a series of policy and political interventions by Xi Jinping.
Xi Jinping, rather than allowing the property sector to collapse completely, decided as of about 2024 to put a floor under it to rescue some of the property development firms and also to ensure that people were not going to lose anything and everything.
So there's an awareness that you can't just allow private consumption to be destroyed completely.
You can't allow that.
But has that dissipated his fundamental ideological resolve to build this all-powerful Chinese industrial state which controls supply chains at home and abroad?
No, it hasn't compromised that one bit.
The bottom line is...
Xi Jinping's response to a very disgruntled body politic was, what you need to do is to learn how to chukwu, which is eat bitterness.
That's what we've done throughout the most difficult periods of party history.
Of course, if you've got a formidable, all-seeing, all-dancing surveillance system across the country run by the security intelligence authorities, you can say, eat bitterness with some effect because the system will be out there to round you up if you don't do so accordingly and with a smile on your face.
Well, Jack was always larger than life, and I've known Jack quite a lot over the years in one form or another.
If you ever listen to Jack's English, you'll notice an Australian twang.
It's not from me, but as a young person, he went off to Australia to learn some English.
So we're responsible for Jack's version of the English language.
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