Xi’s grandiose plan for the Asia-Pacific is not working. Kevin Rudd knows why: Sydney Morning Herald

Interview with Peter Hartcher

Pressure and release. That’s China’s formula for dealing with Australia, and a range of other nations, according to Kevin Rudd, one of the West’s foremost experts on the ideology and strategy of President Xi Jinping.

Beijing’s strategy is unchanging and unrelenting. However: “What is under continual re-evaluation is tactics. Tactics alternate between pressure and release, depending on other developments and the state of the bilateral relationship,” Rudd tells me.

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