LINE IN THE SAND
Australia’s former Labor prime minister, Kevin Rudd – long a scholar of China and its threat to the West – has urged New Zealand and Australia to pool military resources, beginning with joint maritime and air force patrols of the South Pacific.
“That’s not really an option in my mind. It is now necessary for both of us,” Rudd told the Listener in an interview to promote his new book, The Avoidable War. The book sets out a road map by which the former politician and diplomat hopes China and the United States might avoid war, and what he terms “global carnage on an industrial scale”.
Now president of the Asia Society – a well-funded and influential New York-based think tank – Rudd is regarded as one of
