In his new book, On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism Is Shaping China and the World, the Honorable Dr. Kevin Rudd leverages his experience as a public servant, prime minister, diplomat, and China scholar to explore the question on everyone’s minds: How should we understand the dramatic political and policy shifts that Xi has introduced, both domestically and internationally? Based on his Oxford University doctoral research and extensive use of primary Chinese sources, Dr. Rudd identifies the key patterns in Xi’s ideological worldview and examines what they reveal about China’s future trajectory and global impact.

To further explore these questions, New York Times journalist Li Yuan will join Dr. Rudd and Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, for a conversation on how Xi Jinping’s worldview differs significantly from those of the leaders who preceded him and how this ideological shift is reflected in real-world Chinese policy and behavior.

This is a co-hosted event by the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis and the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations.

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SPEAKERS

The Hon. Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. In March 2023, Kevin Rudd assumed his role as Australia’s Ambassador to the United States in Washington DC. Kevin is recognized as a leading analyst of China and, prior to his ambassadorship, served from as the inaugural President of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York from 2015. In 2020, he was appointed President and CEO of the Asia Society globally and, in 2022, he founded the Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis.

Orville Schell is Vice President and Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, and a former dean of the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. Schell is the author of fifteen books, ten of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes.

Li Yuan (moderator) is a journalist for The New York Times writing The New New World column, which focuses on China’s growing influence on the world by examining its businesses, politics and society. She's also the host of Bumingbai (不明白) Podcast, a weekly Chinese-language show about the current affairs of China.