You can feel it in the air right across Australia – the mood for change is real. After close to ten long years in office, the people of Australia are fed up to the back teeth with Morison’s Liberals.

The former Australian prime minister talks about the extraordinary personal chemistry between Xi and Putin, the reality checks slowly working their way through the Chinese system, and the realist framework that just might work for both the U.S. and China.

The rise of a strong and confident China has had more implications for Australia than perhaps any other advanced country apart from the United States, as evidenced by the ongoing public debate over the impact of China’s new bilateral security agreement with the Solomon Islands.

Kevin Rudd is in conversation with Julie Bishop on his new book, The Avoidable War. The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China, in which the former Prime Minister of Australia, and deeply knowledgeable China watcher, proposes a way forward for the US and China to avoid a superpower conflict. Kevin Rudd offers a chilling vision of what that might look like if it was unleashed.

My personal encounter with the Murdoch media while out campaigning with Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah, the Labor candidate for Higgins. The Murdoch mob don’t like it when you dish it back to them.

If Xi Jinping was hoping for an uneventful and stable 2022 before his planned “re-election” this fall, he must be disappointed. In January I wrote that “China’s economic future isn’t looking all that bright and is starting to have political implications for President Xi Jinping.” That turned out to be an understatement.

Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gives his take on the Federal Election campaign and weighs in on China’s expansionism.

The clearest example is the ABC’s budget. Despite a crystal-clear election promise in 2013 of “no cuts to the ABC”, the national broadcaster is facing $1.2bn of cumulative cuts over a decade. These cuts have felled two television programs that were crucial to government accountability, Lateline and the state-based 7.30 program (once known as Stateline), among many others.

The Avoidable War demystifies the actions of both sides, explaining and translating them for the benefit of the other. Geopolitical disaster is still avoidable, but only if these two giants can find a way to coexist without betraying their core interests through what Rudd calls "managed strategic competition". Should they fail, down that path lies the possibility of a war that would rewrite the future of both countries, our region, and the world.

The relationship between the U.S. and China has reverberating consequences around the world. The ties between the two superpowers rests on a seismic fault—of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility.

Join former Prime Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd, as he explores what a superpower conflict in Australia’s region might look like, and proposes a way forward to avoid it. Kevin Rudd has become one of today’s most thoughtful analysts of China’s development and in his latest book “The Avoidable War” he offers real insight into the mindsets of leaders whose judgments will determine if a war will be fought.

Few western statesmen have enjoyed much quality time with Xi Jinping, especially as China’s president has of late retreated into pandemic-era seclusion. Kevin Rudd is one who did. “I spent a total of 10 hours in conversation with Xi in six separate meetings, including about three hours around a winter fire at the prime ministerial residence,” he writes in The Avoidable War, describing a moment back in 2010, when Xi was Chinese vice-premier and Rudd was Australia’s prime minister.

At the ASPI Masterclass ‘China’s emerging military and strategic capabilities’, the Hon Mr Kevin Rudd, 26th Prime Minister of Australia, delivered a keynote address on China and touched on some of the themes he explores in his new book ‘The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and XI Jingping’s China’.

In this 100th episode of Dollar & Sense podcast, former Australia Prime MinisterKevin Rudd, now president of Asia Society, discusses his new book, The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China (Public Affairs, 2022). Rudd calls Taiwan the “core strategic tension” between China and the United States, discusses how the U.S. and China can manage strategic competition, looks at trade issues in the region, and describes China’s challenge to the current U.S.-led international order.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says China’s security deal with Solomon Islands was a ‘politically illiterate’ move if Beijing is sincere about improving relations with Australia.

So what does a war between US and China mean for us? Australia’s economy is very dependent on China, but we’re also besties with the US. Jan Fran interviews Kevin Rudd on his latest book ‘The Avoidable War’

As Australia’s Defence Minister warns his nation to ‘prepare for war’ with China, there’s a growing feeling of inevitability about a future conflict between China and the United States. Against this rather bleak backdrop, we hear from one global figure who has had unusual access to China's leaders: Australia's former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The President and CEO of the Asia Society, he describes himself as a Sinologist at the tables of power. He's probably the only Mandarin-speaking world leader to have one-on-ones with Xi Jinping and hear Jiang Zemin's rendition of O Sole Mio at Sydney Opera House. Rudd is publishing a book called The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the United States and Xi Jinping’s China. This episode is a live recording of his Melbourne book launch, hosted by Louisa. In it, Rudd unpacks the logic of a future war, warns of Xi's biggest vulnerability and predicts a rocky few months ahead. This event was co-hosted by the Asia Society, the Wheeler Centre and RMIT Live.

The bottom line is [COVID shutdowns] are already effecting a number of manufacturing & that is already impacting supply chains.

According to Mr. Rudd, a former Australian prime minister who has studied, lived in, and worked with China for more than forty years, the relationship between the United States and China is especially volatile. It sits atop cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and be offended; the capacity for either country to cross a critical line is growing rapidly.