Xi may miscalculate on US resolve to defend Taiwan: The Australian
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says there is a risk Chinese leader Xi Jinping might “miscalculate” and attack Taiwan in two years’ time, especially given perceptions of reduced US military capacity because of its war in Iran.
Dr Rudd, who recently finished up as Australia’s ambassador to the US, said this could mean “potentially dangerous territory”.
The former Labor leader is now chief of the Asia Society think tank and recently published a book titled On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World. “I’m worried very much that Xi Jinping could miscalculate in 2028,” he told New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, a leading centre-left figure.