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Sep 16, 2026
Wendy Whitman CobbHOST
I'm Dr. Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies and Deputy Commandant at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.
Wendy Whitman CobbHOST
Before we get any further, we want to note that all opinions expressed here are our own and our guests and do not necessarily represent the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Defense, the Asia Society, or any other affiliated organizations.
Wendy Whitman CobbHOST
While Colonel Corey Holland was unable to join me today, I am joined by an excellent guest, Lyle Morris of the Asia Society.
Wendy Whitman CobbHOST
And he is a senior fellow on foreign policy and national security at the Center for China Analysis.
Wendy Whitman CobbHOST
Prior to joining ASPI, Lyle was a senior policy analyst at RAND, leading projects on Chinese military modernization.
Wendy Whitman CobbHOST
So I gave a little bit of a snippet there of your bio, but let's just start off and have you maybe talk a little bit about your background and how you got into this and what exactly it is that you study.
Lyle MorrisGUEST
Yeah, so I currently work at the Center for China Analysis.
Lyle MorrisGUEST
It's a relatively newer think tank within Asia Society Policy Institute.
Mina KimHOST
Orville Schell has been a leading scholar on China for more than 50 years, visiting the nation since the 1970s.
Mina KimHOST
He's Asia Society's Director of the Center on US-China Relations and former Dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
Mina KimHOST
In 1991, Schell helped CBS's 60 Minutes conduct an expose into China's forced labor camps, where prisoners were making products that were being secretly exported to American markets.
Mina KimHOST
But he shelved the written account he'd promised then to The New Yorker, until now.
Kevin RuddGUEST
You just-- But no, I, uh, I had an option, which is leave after three years or stay for six, uh, to the end of the Trump administration.
Kevin RuddGUEST
Because I had been running a think tank in the United States called the Asia Society, where my focus is US-China relations, and working quietly with the administration, the Chinese, and others on how you try and preserve the peace.
Kevin RuddGUEST
I figured after three years it was better to do that, uh, for the duration, uh, of this administration's period, rather than, uh, keep on as ambassador in Washington.
Kevin RuddGUEST
So I pulled up stumps and went back to New York.
David SpeersHOST
Just what are the chances of China invading Taiwan in the next couple of years? Well, according to Kevin Rudd, one in three.
David SpeersHOST
The former prime minister and former ambassador to the United States is a world-renowned China expert, and he's now back in the think tank world, running the Asia Society once more.
David SpeersHOST
He returned to Canberra this week to speak at the National Press Club, where he issued a warning.
David SpeersHOST
"Australia has drifted to become the complacent country," he said, "and we need to urgently prepare for three national security challenges that are bearing down.
21 MINS LATER
Kevin RuddGUEST
This genie is out of the bottle.
David SpeersHOST
Mm.
Kevin RuddGUEST
The question is, how do we manage the genie? Um, and therefore, having looked at this now for quite a number of years, uh, and I've got a team of people work on this in terms of US-China relations in, uh, my Asia Society think tank at present.
Kevin RuddGUEST
The only conclusion I reach from Australia is that we must have this, this set of capabilities ourselves, sovereign capabilities-
Nick GrimmHOST
Kevin Rudd, who's also a former Australian ambassador to the United States, joined Sally Sara as well.
Nick GrimmHOST
Now the Global President of the Asia Society, Mr. Rudd had these observations.
Kevin RuddSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, I remember, um, actually watching, uh, television live that day and, uh, with, uh, my daughter as, um, uh, the footage and the coverage went to, uh, what had happened with the first tower and then watched live the, uh, aircraft colliding, uh, or crashing into the second tower.
Kevin RuddSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I think at that very moment, looking at it and looking at it carefully, uh, you sensed, uh, in your guts that the world at that moment had changed, and so it had.
Kevin RuddSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And let's not forget, uh, the overall and continuing challenge of climate change and extreme weather events which are washing over us and which may in fact become extreme, uh, int-- in the near future to the point where we're then counting the economic cost as others are around the world.
Kevin RuddSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's a mindset problem, and therefore part of the reason for my address, principal reason for my address to National Press Club yesterday was to say we need to change our national psychology, grasp our future with both our hands, take big, bold decisions, not be risk-averse, in particular through the ranks of the Australian Public Service.
Nick GrimmHOST
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, nowadays the Global President of the Asia Society.
Nick GrimmHOST
[upbeat music] It was in the wake of the September 11 attacks that US President George W. Bush launched his War on Terror, which ultimately led to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Sally SaraHOST
[upbeat jingle] Kevin Rudd, also former prime minister, former Australian ambassador to the United States, and is now Global President of the Asia Society.
Sally SaraHOST
Mr. Rudd addressed the National Press Club yesterday, warning that Australia risked becoming a second-rate country without a, quote, "radical change in our national psychology." Kevin Rudd is my guest this morning.
Sally SaraHOST
Mr. Rudd, welcome back to, to Breakfast.
Larry DiamondHOST
Um, he has been for at least half a century, I think, one of the leading scholars and interpreters, uh, of China, uh, to the world and to the United States, and I guess also, uh, of, uh, interpreter of the United States to China as well.
Larry DiamondHOST
Uh, he's currently the Arthur Ross Asia Society, uh, Vice President and Director of the Center on US-China Relations.
Larry DiamondHOST
Uh, many of you will probably also know that he's the former dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
Larry DiamondHOST
He's the author of, uh, numerous books, including with John Delury, Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-First Century.
Carine de MeyereGUEST
And she'll be part of the reception program.
Carine de MeyereGUEST
We will be visiting the Asia Society.
Carine de MeyereGUEST
So, you know what I mean? In all the meetings, we will have a lot of culture also, I said it, integrated.
Carine de MeyereGUEST
We will talk with the, maybe I think there's like a Dutch CEO business council.
Hamish MacdonaldHOST
I think that's what makes him so interesting for our conversation today.
Geraldine DoogueHOST
And he's now the global president and CEO of the Asia Society in New York, so it was a great pleasure to welcome him.
Geraldine DoogueHOST
[upbeat music] Kevin Rudd, welcome to Global Roaming.
Kevin RuddGUEST
Good to be here, having just globally roamed.
Anjan RoyHOST
At Paradigm Shock, we explore the historic changes defining our times, helping you develop your own cross-disciplinary edge.
Anjan RoyHOST
I'm Anjan Roy, and today I'm joined by Alvin Wang Grayling, Digital Fellow at Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered AI and Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute Center for China Analysis, and also Professor of AI and Technology Policy at the University of Washington.
Anjan RoyHOST
In this episode, we unpack the skyrocketing AI capital investment boom, a trajectory Alvin argues is unsustainable for the major frontier labs, especially as smaller and open source models rapidly close the capability gap at a fraction of the cost.
Anjan RoyHOST
We also dive into the upcoming US-China AI Talks, outlining his framework for mutually beneficial AI governance, and explore his latest paper on AI risk, safety, and security, which challenges several dominant narratives in the AI and tech communities.
Anjan RoyHOST
I'm really looking forward to this and thank you so much for your time.
Anjan RoyHOST
So a quick intro for our users.
Anjan RoyHOST
You've had an amazing career and right now you're a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute Center for China Analysis.
Anjan RoyHOST
You're professor of AI and technology policy at the University of Washington.
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