Kevin Rudd believes Xi Jinping hopes to return Taiwan to China in late 2020s, early 2030s | 7.30

Many foreign policy observers are wondering how China's territorial ambitions for Taiwan are being affected by Russia's experience invading Ukraine. Taiwan's independence is widely considered the most likely issue to embroil Australia in a regional war, given the US is likely to respond to Chinese aggression.
The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd is one of the world's top experts on China-US relations and he thinks the next decade is critical to preventing conflict. He's currently the president of the Asia Society and has a new book out next week called The Avoidable War.
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