Kevin Rudd at the Caixin Global Asia New Vision Forum

Washington and Beijing need to have a relationship of “managed strategic competition” in order to maintain continued economic prosperity, Kevin Rudd, former Australian prime minister and current ambassador to the U.S., said at a recent forum in Singapore.

Such a relationship involves guardrails and more open lines of communication between the militaries of the two countries and political establishments, which could help “reduce the risk of crisis, conflict, and war by accident,” Rudd said at Caixin’s Asia New Vision Forum 2024 on Wednesday.

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