Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
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But at the level of raw national power, the power of the US military, the power of Indo-Pacific command, the power of what you have in cyber and space and your nuclear forces, and the power of American innovation reflected through Silicon Valley cubed, he looks at that and says, that's the only thing that can get in my road.
And that's why America occupies this unique position, whether you're run by Republicans or whether you're run by Democrats.
They do have this belief.
It's expressed in two different ways.
There is a Chinese concept of what they call comprehensive national power.
It's a standard analytical framework for aggregate American power, the aggregate Chinese power against all indices of power.
They look at the size of the US military, the size of allied militaries, the size of their own military, and they make their own calculus.
They also make calculus about the solidity of, shall we say, US alliances abroad and when those are under pressure or when they're beginning to fracture.
They also look at the solidity of the US domestic body politic and the degree of unity and disunity against, shall we say, the predetermined unity of the Chinese unitary state.
Interestingly, they stopped publishing this stuff for the rest of the world to see what their conclusions were about 12 years ago.
I think because the results were beginning to look increasingly indicative that China was really rising rather rapidly.
The second is in a propagandistic phrase, which in Chinese is 东升西降, which is the rise of the East and the decline of the West.
And in Chinese political parlance, that's a euphemism for China and the United States.
And if there's a third phrase, it's probably Xi Jinping's oft-used phrase, including during the summit with President Trump most recently.
the world is now experiencing changes not seen in a 100 years.
He first began using that phrase in 2017 on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The internal interpretation of the phrase is that we, the Chinese, now with our own revolution, now going out into the world at large,
represent as seminal shaking an event of the certainties and certitudes of global politics today as the Bolshevik revolution portended back in 1917.
And so then there's, I guess, two things here.
They saw a sea change just under 10 years ago during the first Trump administration when the official American strategy towards China changed from strategic engagement to strategic competition.
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