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Kevin Rudd: Learning Chinese Is a 'Doorway to Understanding'

LOS ANGELES, May 8, 2014 — In the keynote address of Asia Society's 2014 National Chinese Language Conference, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who speaks fluent Mandarin, cautions against five commonly held misperceptions of China and speaks of language as "a doorway to understanding." (24 min., 44 sec.)

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