[Lecture] Kevin Rudd: U.S. - China Relations, North Korea & the Future of the Global Order

[@aznknight22]

Mr.Rudd is one of the best experts on China.

[@charlesqiu6190]

Amazing speech

[@eymeeraosaka2954]

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is truly a diplomat. He is very tactful in his approach...

[@pahsalarm7552]

Australia's former prime minister, Kevin Rudd, is indeed one of the best mind in international politics and affairs. It's a treat to hear him sharing his thought on this timely issues.

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[@stephencyang6628]

Mr. Rudd has a deep and uncolored understanding of China and its intentions.

[@mathewmathew08]

Wish I can hear more from kevin Rudd

[@lemonarry]

Compare the depth, width, logic, reason, foresight, and intellect between the Chinese leadership and the American leadership. To me, it is more than clear how future is going to unfold.

[@joelmil1861]

Spartan you ought to be named “Nostradamus.”

[@joelmil1861]

The Chinese government is pretty savvy and patient when dealing with predictable patterns. That’s how they have become the second largest economy in only two decades. Let’s see how well they perform with unpredictability.

[@muntee33]

Why can't we be a neutral country. Or is that not allowed by our board members?

[@lowcc7602]

kevin has been able to read to a certain extend xi chen pin ideas.

[@pardeeptandon6730]

Chinese society follows Confucius ideology which is very different from western ideology that is the main bone of contention between the two societies

[@dhdhlee9449]

Pardeep Tandon let's cut the crap. China is either a marxist authoritarian regime or a confucius orientated dictatorship. It is one or the other. It cannot be both because the two are of fundamentally different nature and to a large extend mutually exclusive. What the Chinese are now doing is telling completely different stories that crash with one another to different audiences; internally within the Communist party, domestically to its people and internationally. There has not ever been a true and consistent policy rhetoric across the board and it makes you doubt if there will ever be one coming out of this regime with its questionable ethical stance and dubious track record for being trustworthy. What they do in term of propaganda remains fundamentally unchanged in both its substance and form with an added benefit of technology use. Through the use of technology, it significantly broardens their political horizon into every nook and cranny in cyberspace. Seeing all that many Chinese government Internet trolls employed everywhere on the internet in an attempt to influence public opinion employing their favorite brainwashing technique of bullying, repetition and misinformation coped with name calling, foul languages rather than persuasion makes you wonder if they are now treating the entire world , at least in the sense of cyberspace activities concerning internet users across the world, as their own backyard. Undoubtedly all players in domestic and international politics globally have more or less extended their reach on the internet. But the political frontier the Chinese seek to establish represents an unique challenge if not an annoyance for ordinary internet users. It is a challenge because with the financial backing of a state, this well organised troll army can and do drown out any dissenting voices and worse still drive people out of the web forums of discussion. Conducts of those Chinese internet trolls reflect well the violent and aggressive nature of the political force behind them. Nuisance or your everyday menace is not sufficient to describe what the encounters with those trolls feel like to people. It feels more like a political purge against dissents. For those who are not familiar with the the everlasting political purges and persecutions in China, one does not have to look far for an example of similar occurrence, suffice to say, one needs only to picture the dark days of Nazi Germany to have a handful. One thing is guranteed and that is it is going to be anything but pleasant of an experience for you unless of course you happen to be in agreement with what they say. Nonetheless you want to put yourself in the shoes of those at the receiving end of the purging, it does not take a genius to know it is a matter of time before it happens to you.

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[@lominiski]

Yes. Americans are going crazy

[@stephenmonash8245]

Have always been.. are.. and continue to be

[@briannxx]

DrTed Lem We are free and crazy and I wouldn’t have it any other way! Live Free Or Die from Texas

[@martinjanecek4950]

thats not the point.

[@gregkelly9775]

Rudd loves the sound of his own voice

[@gregkelly9775]

Mohel Skinberg Australian political leaders refused to endorse his nomination for UN secretary general because he was a recalcitrant and a bully. Nothing to do with big words.

[@AFewGoodMen-h8g]

Mohel Skinberg The anti-intellectualism in Australia is probably exceeding that of in America. Kevin Rudd is probably viewed as an intellectual snob in Australia, to put it another way, Kevin probably looks down on a lot of his fellow country men...

[@gregkelly9775]

Wade I know many intellectuals who are not arrogant and not bullies. I am not opposed to intellectualism. I hold 2 Masters degrees myself.

[@aznknight22]

Greg Kelly I would think 2 master degrees make you less anti- intellectual, but I guess that the conclusion is that higher education does not have much effect on being an anti -intellectual. Mr.Rudd is an authority in whats going on inside china and the world.

[@gregkelly9775]

Steven Guan I don't think you understand my point. I am not ant-intellectual, although I do agree that Aussies tend to be wary of intellectuals - tall poppy syndrome. I am saying that intellectual or not, he is a bully, a narcissist and a recalcitrant and has a reputation as such. And me being educated, doesnt mean that this is proof that educated people can be anti-intellectual. This is quite an unintellectual conclusion to draw.

[@paladino444]

I surely understand and accept the position of the Australians and their dependence upon China for the food on their table. I surely understand that mean that Australians will elect leaders like Rudd who can look the other way when the Chinese kills tens of thousands, perhaps 200k Falun Gong over the last decade and now have many thousands in special prisons harvesting organs from living Falun Gong prisoners for CCPs member and their families or for sale to richer person from abroad who want to buy an organ. I also accept that politicians do what they do as foul as it smells at times and Rudd has little concern for the 2 million Uyghurs in concentration camps and the Uyghur women being forced by gunpoint to marry ethnic Chinese to give them babies since the One-Child policy of the CCP has backfired on them...predictably by anyone who understand the stupidity of Chinese obsession with killing female babies. For too many years the American public was ignorant being in the West and it was only awakened by Trump. Now that the truth is getting heard the West is putting their foot down carefully as this kind of inhumanity is hard to swallow. I think the willful ignorance of the Americans is tragic and I hope that recent awakening continues as the Americans were sold a smelly bag of fish by Rep & Demos back in the 90s about China and then truly lied to by Bush & Obama as to what was going on in China. Now the stink of the fish is too much and confrontation has arrived. Being a Taoist I have great anger seeing Falun Gong, regardless of what their religious picadillos are, being used as human organ farms for the CCP.

[@stephenmonash8245]

Lee Kuan Yew ran a Totalitarian State.. what's to learn from this dictator? His people his servants his victims were the lower and middle classes of Singapore. The distribution of wealth and the lines of wealth drawn socially within Singapore being totally inequitable are probably the most important human rights abuse of his regime.