Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
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And let me explain what I mean by that.
One, as I've said before, don't mistake the fundamentals here, which is that Xi Jinping and the party he leads is Leninist.
And they have a very clear-eyed view of where they wish to be at home and abroad.
And at home and abroad, it's for China to become a fully developed economy.
and abroad for China to be the most powerful state in the Indo-Pacific region and in the world, and to surpass the United States.
So let's just be clear about that.
It's an unemotional, clear-headed, realist, but ideologically driven view of the world.
What I've argued for a long period of time, and I think there are levels of agreement and disagreement with this approach, is what I call managed strategic competition.
Accept the reality of the competition and manage it.
It's far better than unmanaged strategic competition, which can end in crisis, conflict, and war.
What do I mean by that?
Three points, really.
I accept the fact that there are fundamental strategic red lines which they can't cross and we can't cross, and that managing those red lines, particularly over the question of Taiwan, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea, is the meat and potatoes of sustained deterrence.
And that actually creates the strategic stability for the rest of the management of the relationship to ensue.
The second element of managed strategic competition is for the economy writ large, whether it's trade, investment, capital markets, currency markets, technology markets, talent markets.
Ideas markets, the ideation of the future, the liberal international rules-based order or one headquartered in Beijing, make this a full and open competition and may the best system win.
The third component of managed strategic competition is those areas which we define as in our mutual interest to cooperate on.
Future of AI governance?
Preventing the next global pandemic, given how much we all screwed up on the last one, particularly the Chinese.
The future of other forms of global public health, like cancer research and biotech.
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