A week following U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan, an expert panel organized by the Asia Society Policy Institute analyzes the trip's repercussions on Washington’s relationship with Beijing and Taipei, as well as Beijing’s relations with Taipei. The participants include Asia Society and Asia Society Policy Institute President Kevin Rudd, Asia Society Policy Institute Vice President Daniel Russel, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations Arthur Ross Director Orville Schell, and German Marshall Fund Asia Program Director Bonnie Glaser. Asia Society Policy Institute Managing Director Rorry Daniels moderated the discussion

A week following U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to Taiwan, an expert panel organized by the Asia Society Policy Institute analyzes the trip's repercussions on Washington’s relationship with Beijing and Taipei, as well as Beijing’s relations with Taipei.

In March, Beijing set its annual economic growth target at 5.5%—the lowest in decades, but still highly ambitious given the circumstances. While in China the paramount leader can never be wrong, the prospects of delivering 5.5% growth seem remote. The proximate cause for this recent slowdown is the draconian “zero Covid” lockdown policy that cratered economic activity in many major cities for months at a time. Shanghai’s economic output shrank 13.7% in the second quarter of 2022. But Covid isn’t the whole story. China’s economy has deeper policy and structural problems that have emerged over several years.

The fate of our planet's future lies in Asia. It is not only the world's
manufacturing workshop. It is also becoming the world's biggest
consumer, driven by the presence of the globe's largest population
and many of its fastest-growing economies.

It has been almost two years since Kevin Rudd uploaded a video to his social media channels calling Rupert Murdoch an “arrogant cancer on our democracy” and invited Australians to sign his petition for a royal commission into media diversity.

China's Ambassador to Australia has issued a clear warning to Australia, to take reunification with Taiwan seriously.
Ambassador Xiao Qian said the mainland would use all means necessary to ensure Taiwan was part of China.

Asia Society President and Former Australian Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd, speaks to CNBC’s Dan Murphy following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan.

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ABC News' Kayna Whitworth spoke with former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd, author of the book, "The Avoidable War," on the fallout from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's high-stakes visit to Taiwan.

The US-China relationship has become red-raw in recent years. Pelosi's visit throws fuel on the fire. I doubt China is about to ignite a shooting match with the US over it. But they will unleash a bunch of countermeasures against Taiwan itself.

The Chinese Communist Party has used nationalism as a governing tool since the Mao era. Xi Jinping, China’s current paramount leader, took it to a new level. “Nationalism is becoming a core pillar of both the party’s and Xi’s personal political legitimacy,” Kevin Rudd, the chief executive of the Asia Society and a former prime minister of Australia, wrote in his book “The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the U.S. and Xi Jinping’s China.”

Kevin Rudd gives the 2022 Susan Shirk Lecture at UC San Diego.

A conversation with Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia, as he discusses his new book 'The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China', with Tony Travers.

Kevin Rudd, president and CEO of the Asia Society and former Prime Minister of Australia, talks about his new book, "The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the U.S. and Xi Jinping's China" with Here & Now's Scott Tong. Rudd lays out the pressure points between the United States and China and suggests ways to adopt a better-managed policy of strategic competition.

Kevin Rudd pays tribute to Shinzo Abe, the late former Japanese prime minister, in a short audio essay for BBC World Service Radio.

Kevin Rudd on CNN’s First Move discussing a crisis in China's property market, which makes up nearly a third of GDP. Investors are spooked after at least 10 real estate developers defaulted on their debts, and the Chinese government’s crackdown on the tech sector.

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On ‘Talking Point‘, from Brisbane, Kevin Rudd, twice Prime Minister of Australia, Author of, ‘The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping’s China’, President & CEO, Asia Society and President, Asia Society Policy Institute in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi.

Kevin Rudd’s remarks to the 10th World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University on the prospects for “managed strategic competition”.

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will join a new advisory group charged with recommending practical security mechanisms to deter future aggression against Ukraine.