#86: Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II – Kevin Rudd

Show notes

Selected links

• Follow Kevin: Website | Twitter
• Mike Pence’s Hudson Institute Speech (October 4, 2018)
• ‘The Sources of Soviet Conduct’, 1947 article by “X” (George Kennan)
• Henry Kissinger’s talk at Bloomberg’s New Economy Forum (November 21, 2019)
• ‘Chinese Communist Party Influence at Australian Universities’, lecture by Clive Hamilton
• ‘High Tide? Populism in Power, 1990 – 2020’, report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
• ‘Going to Extremes: Politics after Financial Crises, 1870 – 2014’, paper by Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch
• ‘The Complacent Country’, article by Kevin Rudd

Topics discussed

• Wuhan. 3:56
• What has the coronavirus revealed about the limits of the CCP’s competence? 4:30
• Is the CCP underreporting coronavirus figures, as it did for SARS figures in 2003? 6:57
• Are China and the US in a new cold war? 8:44
• Would a new cold war have any hidden upsides? 11:56
• Chinese influence in Australian universities. 13:51
• How should Australia deal with Chinese influence? 17:58
• Cross-cultural communication between China and the West. 23:40
• How does the Left reformulate itself in the face of electoral defeats around the world? 27:51