Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
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H.R.
McMaster, then Trump's national security advisor, wrote that in the National Security Strategy, I think, December of 2017.
And that wasn't just a piece of language.
You could almost hear the creaking of the entire machinery of the U.S.
state across all agencies of power.
Before that, Obama talked about his pivot to Asia.
That's true.
But he did not have an organizing principle, which is that we are in a competitive relationship with China about which country becomes the dominant power in the Indo-Pacific and in the world.
So that's the big change.
That dominated second half of Trump's term, the first term, dominated really Biden administration.
And then through until the most recently convened summit in Beijing, where we now have a different organizing principle announced for the first time, this time by the Chinese.
called Constructive Strategic Stability.
And the White House briefing paper, which came back at the conclusion of the visit, said, yeah, that's the framework we accept so long as it's fair and reciprocal.
So what does that mean if you decode it?
I think what the Chinese are seeking to do is to cause the United States to be more stable, less unpredictable and less antagonistic going forward.
What is it going to mean in practice?
I don't know.
One of the advantages may be the two sides begin to have an active and substantive negotiation on the regulation of the most dangerous and destabilizing forms of artificial intelligence, which is what came out of Scott Besson's conversations with his counterpart, Hurley Fung.
For the rest of the relationship beyond AI governance, I'm not sure yet.
The third way.
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