{"id":15030,"date":"2022-03-04T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T11:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15030"},"modified":"2022-03-04T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T11:23:57","slug":"kevin-rudd-says-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/kevin-rudd-says-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Rudd Says More\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__byline\"><time class=\"\" datetime=\"2022-03-01T09:55Z\">Mar 1, 2022<\/time><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><em>This week in Say More,\u00a0<\/em>PS\u00a0<em>talks with former Australian Prime Minister\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>Kevin Rudd<\/em><\/strong><em>, President of the Asia Society and Chair of the International Peace Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Project Syndicate:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0The title of your forthcoming book,\u00a0<\/em>The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping\u2019s China<em>, refers specifically to \u201cXi Jinping\u2019s China.\u201d In a February 2020 commentary, you indicate why,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/coronavirus-will-not-change-xi-jinping-china-governance-by-kevin-rudd-2020-02?clearcache=true\"><em>observing<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0that Xi wields \u201cnear-absolute political power.\u201d Two years later, how have factors like the pandemic and real-estate scares affected Xi\u2019s position? What is his biggest vulnerability?<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__body article__body--interview paywall english\" dir=\"ltr\" data-page-area=\"article-body\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en-us\" data-walltype=\"regwall\" data-pa=\"\" data-page-area=\"wall\" data-page-subarea=\"regwall\"><strong>Kevin Rudd:\u00a0<\/strong>Xi Jinping is central to my book because it is simply impossible to understand fully what has happened to US-China relations over the last decade \u2013 and what might happen in what I call \u201cthe dangerous decade\u201d ahead \u2013 without understanding both Xi himself and how he has transformed China since coming to power in 2012. The book dives into what drives him, and how he has secured such dominance in the Chinese system.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en-us\" data-walltype=\"regwall\" data-page-area=\"wall\" data-page-subarea=\"regwall\">\n<div class=\"article__body article__body--interview paywall english\" dir=\"ltr\" data-page-area=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"paywall paywall--base\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en-us\" data-walltype=\"regwall\" data-page-area=\"wall\" data-page-subarea=\"regwall\">Read the original interview on the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/say-more\/an-interview-with-kevin-rudd-2022-03?barrier=accesspaylog\">Project Syndicate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 1, 2022 This week in Say More,\u00a0PS\u00a0talks with former Australian Prime Minister\u00a0Kevin Rudd, President of the Asia Society and Chair of the International Peace Institute. Project Syndicate:\u00a0The title of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-15030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-room","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}