Kevin Rudd discusses his new book The Avoidable War with Tom Swarbrick on LBC UK

An ageing dictator, looking to his legacy, pushes the button on a long-planned invasion of a smaller neighbour. The fiction of an “international community” is quickly exposed: some countries barely bat an eyelid, preferring the economic rewards of a close relationship; others fear that anything beyond sanctions and stern words risks escalation – the story that this dictator has spent years telling his people, about their destiny and about himself, makes this conflict existential. This is Vladimir Putin and Ukraine in 2022. Could it be Xi Jinping and Taiwan a few years hence?

China will welcome a prolonged war in Ukraine as a “rolling strategic diversion” from its own assertiveness, according to former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd, and exploit a distracted west to focus on its competition with the US. Western nations have imposed economic sanctions on Russia and supplied Ukraine with weapons following President Vladimir Putin’s invasion in February. China has refused to condemn Russia’s belligerence, drawing accusations that Beijing supported Moscow’s invasion.

A war between China and the US would be catastrophic, deadly, and destructive. Unfortunately, it is no longer unthinkable. The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia joined Kevin Rudd, a former Australian prime minister who has studied, lived in, and worked with China for more than forty years, to hear his insight on how the two superpowers can coexist.

Kevin Peraino of the New York Times reviews Kevin Rudd’s ‘The Avoidable War’

Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia and currently the president and CEO of the Asia Society, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss China's economy amid stringent Covid lockdowns in Shanghai.

Kevin Rudd appears on CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss China’s economy amid stringent Covid lockdowns in Shanghai.

Kevin Rudd discusses major topics of his new book, “The Avoidable War”.

Former Australian prime minister and China expert Kevin Rudd has published a penetrating and prescient analysis of the history and future of US-China relations as an excerpt of his forthcoming book.

Rana Foroohar’s reviews Kevin Rudd’s ‘The Avoidable War’ in the Financial Times’ Swamp Notes newsletter.

How the U.S and China can co-exist and manage their strategic competition without it leading to a serious crisis or worse - armed conflict.

Kevin Rudd is unique among contemporary Western leaders in being able to address his Chinese colleagues in their own language.

Kevin Rudd speaking to Duke University in the United States.

Kevin Rudd speaks to the Atlantic Council in the United States.

The world's responsibilities are clear: these barbaric war crimes must be investigated; perpetrators must face justice; and Ukraine cannot afford for the West to become distracted.

Kevin Rudd has hit back at Scott Morrison’s attacks on Labor’s economic credentials, saying the Prime Minister would be “lucky” to have an economic record anything like his.

Mr Rudd told AAP on Wednesday the coalition government's own budget papers showed the Labor government he had led delivered lower taxes, spending, debt and waste, and higher wage growth.

Scott Morrison talks about so-called “Rudd economics”. But what does he actually mean? Morrison’s own budget papers show the Rudd Government consistently delivered lower taxes, lower spending, lower debt, lower waste and higher wage growth than under his government.

Former Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd is a long time scholar of China. In his new book, The Avoidable War, he argues that it is cultural misunderstanding and historical grievance which make Chinese-US relations so volatile.

Hank welcomes Kevin Rudd (26th Prime Minister of Australia and President of the Asia Society Policy Institute) to Straight Talk to discuss what motivated him to write his newest book, The Avoidable War, managed strategic competition and building strategic trust, China-Russia relations and the impact of the latter’s invasion of Ukraine, and US-China and the potential for decoupling or establishing a stable relationship.