Kevin Rudd
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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If you guys still see yourselves as the light on the hill, if you do, are you indifferent to places which have, of their own volition, evolved into democracies and to open societies and to open economies around the world like the 23 million people in Taiwan?
And if you're indifferent to that, what does it say about your indifference to freedom worldwide?
I think those are active considerations for the American body politic.
But as a barbarian living in your midst, far be it from me to tell you what's right or wrong.
And so then what is a wise policy behind those considerations?
The wise policy is, in fact, the least expensive and most effective, sustained deterrence.
If you sustain deterrence, and we therefore sustain the status quo across the Taiwan Straits,
As Deng Xiaoping once said, we kick the ball down the road for future generations who will be much wiser than us to resolve this intractable problem.
I think that is a good place to end.
Always our final question.
What are three books you'd recommend to the audience?
Because we've been talking a little bit about China today, you'll be pleased to know, Ezra, I'm not recommending a text on dialectical materialism.
But one I thought may be of interest, given your line of questioning and perhaps those who are listening is, so where did Xi Jinping come from?
So there's a great book by Joseph Turijian, The Party's Interests Come First, The Life of Xi Jinping, Father of Xi Jinping.
It's a great book and a great read.
The second is Ian Johnson, The Souls of China, The Return of Religion After Mao.
It's about what has occurred on the grounds in the grassroots with the rise of various forms of Taoism, Buddhism, Protestant Christianity, and other forms of religious belief.
as a reaction to the uber-materialism of, let's call it, China's ideological orthodoxy.
And that is a great read.
The third one's by another American author, Pope Leo XIV, or as we would call him in Australia, Pope Bob I, a guy from Chicago.
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