#86: Coronavirus, Covert Influence, And Cold War II – Kevin Rudd
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Kevin Rudd was Australia’s 26th Prime Minister and is the President of the Asia Society Policy Institute.
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