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Strategic Competitors: The Future of the US and China Relationship - Asia Society

USC Marshall Dean Geoffrey Garrett hosts Kevin Rudd, President and CEO of the Asia Society and former Australian Prime Minister – one of the world's foremost authorities on China – and Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, to discuss the most important geopolitical relationship of our time and how the two countries can find a mutual path to peace, prosperity, and sustainability.

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China's Future - What it Means for Asia and the World: Asia Society

At Asia Society Policy Institute's launch of its new Center for China Analysis, Asia Society Policy Institute President and Founding Chair of the Center for China Analysis Kevin Rudd delivers a keynote address and joins former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger in conversation.

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We Need to Talk about China and Climate: Outrage and Optimism

China. On one hand, the country is the world’s largest source of carbon emissions, an economic and political powerhouse resting on a thick cloud of hydrocarbon pollution, contrary to the goals of the Paris Agreement. On the other hand, President Xi Jinping has set the stage for China to emerge as an environmental leader, with the highest reforestation rate in the world; it makes and buys more electric cars than any other country by far; and is the world’s top renewable energy investor for the eighth consecutive year, including manufacturing 80% of solar cells globally.

It is clear that China has the power to determine whether we can limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees celsius. As we head into the COP26 international climate discussions, all eyes will be on the indomitable diplomatic skills of China and America’s special envoys for climate, Xie Xanhau and John Kerry, who brought about significant pact between the world’s two top polluters that significantly influenced the success of the Paris Agreement.

This week we talk with Peggy Liu, a leading catalyst of a greener China and Former Prime Minister of Australia and President of the Asia Society, Kevin Rudd, who offers deep insight into China’s climate goals and trajectory of travel, gleaned over 35 years of working with the Chinese Government.

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Xi in Beijing, Putin in Moscow is a long-term reality - The Print

Kevin Rudd, Former Prime Minister of Australia and presently President of Asia Society, said that Xi Jinping in Beijing and Vladimir Putin in Moscow is a long-term reality now not just for the region but also for the world. India seems to have reached a conclusion that its principal strategic challenge does lie with China whether it's on the Sino-Indian Border, whether it's over Kashmir, whether it's over Pakistan and China's all-weather alliance with Islamabad or over the Indian Ocean, he told Nayanima Basu in this #ThePrintInterview.

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Books for the Century: Foreign Affairs

The twenty-first century will be defined in part by the U.S.-Chinese relationship and its possible devolution into war. Rudd offers the best available treatment of this potential clash and how it might be avoided, says Foreign Affairs.

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In conversation with Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar: Asia Society India

During the launch of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New Delhi, Asia Society India organized a conversation between India's External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam​​​​​​​ Jaishankar and Asia Society President and CEO Kevin Rudd discussing Asia’s dynamic political geography, the rise of tensions among the regional powers, and the future of coalition building among nations.

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Clear analogy with South China Sea and Taiwan to India-China LAC tensions - The Hindu

There are parallels between China’s actions at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and its tensions between China and the US over Taiwan, says former Australian Prime Minister and China watcher Kevin Rudd. Mr. Rudd, who is the author of a new book, “The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the U.S. and Xi Jinping’s China”, is also the President of the Asia Society, and is in Delhi for the launch of a new policy institute, to be inaugurated by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Delhi on Monday.

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