--- description: Rudd is global president of the Asia Society and former prime minister of Australia. He is the author of The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China, available now. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Kevin Rudd  ## Kevin Rudd Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Rudd is global president of the Asia Society and former prime minister of Australia. He is the author of_ [The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China](https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/kevin-rudd/the-avoidable-war/9781541701304/)_, available now._  ## Kevin Rudd Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Apr 4, 2022 ### [The U.S. and China Must Act Now to Avoid a Disastrous War](https://time.com/6164184/how-us-china-avoid-war/) "To avoid sleepwalking into a war, the U.S. and China must construct a joint strategic framework to ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 29, 2021 ### [We Must Learn From the Failed Global Response to COVID-19](https://time.com/6132035/covid-19-pandemic-global-lessons/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 11, 2021 ### [Here's a Model for Global Cooperation on Vaccines](https://time.com/6088896/vaccine-cooperation-global-idea/) Leaders united to harmonize a policy framework for cancer trials for the approval of life-saving dru... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 6, 2020 ### [We Must Set Aside Crude Nationalism to Learn the Truth About COVID-19](https://time.com/5832600/kevin-rudd-china-coronavirus-investigation/) Any investigation into the origins of the coronavirus must ask deeply uncomfortable questions not ju... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 31, 2016 ### [Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd: How to Fix the United Nations](https://time.com/4473978/united-nations-kevin-rudd-reform/) The UN is still important, but it needs to be reformed for a new age [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Dec 21, 2015 ### [Kevin Rudd on China in 2016](https://time.com/4154103/china-essay-kevin-rudd/) Managing new challenges at home, while approaching a greater role in the global order [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/kevin-rudd/","name":"Kevin Rudd"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/kevin-rudd/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/kevin-rudd/"},"name":"Kevin Rudd","jobTitle":null,"description":"Rudd is global president of the Asia Society and former prime minister of Australia. He is the author of The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China, available now.","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec2e352bb77d3c82/698a0dca457a527664d63ec9/kevin-rudd.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-rudd/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```