Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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He speaks very carefully.
Yeah, because he's a Leninist.
And, you know, words are bullets for these guys, and they often result in bullets.
And then thirdly, what do we see?
Increasingly, the patterns of Chinese military exercises in relation to the Taiwan Straits move from just being, shall we say, abstract exercises of China's military preparedness against, for example, a Taiwanese unilateral declaration of independence, which is, I think, a 0.0% possibility.
to exercises which increasingly resemble rehearsals for either taking a Taiwanese offshore island, imposing a blockade, or a full-scale invasion of the island.
Well, because I'm still, shall I say, subject to various national security requirements given my most recent job, you can speculate on that.
I couldn't possibly comment.
That's good.
I'm glad that you've so reflected.
Anyway, we've moved from abstraction to reality.
We've moved from ahistoric time to historic time.
And she's calculus.
He's now 73 years old.
He's up for reappointment at the end of next year.
He probably has a couple of terms in him yet, but he's also, as a good Marxist-Leninist, looking to where the dialectical forces take him in terms of unique periods of opportunity.
Does he perceive 2028 as a unique period of opportunity?
I don't know, but I do notice a sharpening in his levels of preparedness.
Yeah, I'm worried very much that Xi Jinping could miscalculate in 2028.
Why do I say 2028, by the way, and not 2027 or 2026, is that the Taiwanese have their own presidential elections in January of 28.
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