Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
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So what was it like then?
It was China at its most dynamic.
It was China opening up to the world for the very first time, where all things were possible under heaven.
And so this was almost the high days and holy days of China's international engagement.
And it was fully two years before Tiananmen, which was the first great Leninist wake-up call.
Well, it's interesting.
When I was a junior woodchuck in the Australian embassy at the time.
Increasingly, yes.
And so basically the guy does the photocopying.
So when I was there, our prime minister was visiting at the time, a guy called Bob Hawke.
And Bob wanted to go to places other than Beijing.
So we organized for him to go to one of the newly opening up cities, what they called a special economic zone at a place called Xiamen.
So I went to Xiamen to do the advance work.
And I met with the then vice mayor of Xiamen, who was a guy by the name of Xi.
given name, Jinping.
And that's where we first met.
Was it a long and extensive boozy dinner?
No.
But it was the first time I met the guy.
Because I was a student of contemporary Chinese politics, I knew of his father, Xi Zhongxun, who was already a member of the Politburo.
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