Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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It ain't fixed.
China is formidable, and particularly under a leader like Xi Jinping, it's doubly formidable.
And given his surveillance apparatus, it's trebly formidable.
I think in terms of the periods you're talking about, yes, post-COVID, growth slowed.
But underpinning it all was always this continued red thread of Xi Jinping's core organizing principle, which is, I'm building the world's most powerful industrial state.
And I'm not going to let any bunch of private entrepreneurs or consumers get in the road of that.
I'm just going to do it.
That was made in China 2025.
The 10 technology objectives he set for himself in 2015.
If you look at the double down in the current 15th five-year plan announced in only- These are technologies like semiconductors, EVs.
Yeah, aeronautics, EVs, batteries.
If you look at the list of where they were in 2015, which was nowhere much, and where they were by 2025 at the end of last year,
Frankly, as an exercise in industrial policy alone, whatever the economic inefficiency may have been in getting there, Xi Jinping regards that as a bit of loose change compared with obtaining the commanding heights of these new driving technologies.
I think this has been a big evolution in the reality.
Does China engage in industrial espionage?
Yes.
Does China copy stuff which is obviously available through open patent?
Of course.
And they have the great advantage of scale.
And they scale up.
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