Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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But industrial subsidy, which is of an order of magnitude not seen in economic history before, cannot be sustained forever.
It is a perfectly logical response to the challenge which China's industrial policy, which exists on the basis of massive industrial subsidies, poses.
The alternative is you simply allow the Chinese industrial juggernaut to dominate every single industrial and sub-industrial sector.
We've already seen that in terms of critical minerals and rare earths, both raw and processed.
If you want a case study of what that looks like in practice, look at that sector.
The Chinese are highly intelligent, highly disciplined, masters of economic statecraft, and they know where leverage lies.
And because their political culture is dominated by a culture of engineers,
they understand precisely, instinctively, before you get an elaborate dumbed-down briefing to your average Western cabinet about where they stand against the periodic table of critical minerals and rare earths, how many they've got, both on the extraction side and the processing side, and where they therefore will end up to by year X in their ability to, shall we say, exercise leverage elsewhere.
He hasn't told me.
So again, we're into the realm of speculation here.
But his view of America, let me start with that, and then we'll move on to the president.
His view of America is that it's the only country in the world where
potentially standing in the way of his national, political, and economic, and geopolitical ambition.
Why?
Simply because of your scale.
And secondly, for a hundred years, you guys have represented, since the early days of Dewey liberalism,
It's an alternative script for how you construct the politics of a country.
And so when Xi Jinping looks at America, he looks at it through these two lenses.
You represent this massive alternative ideational force, the attraction to the idea that still causes many problems.
successful Chinese to go and live in the United States and the rest of the collective West because freedom is not a hackneyed phrase, particularly if you've lived in a country where there is none.
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