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Xi Jinping’s alarming blueprint for the future

Kevin Rudd leaves us in no doubt about Xi’s determination to influence foreign governments and increase China’s political and policy leverage over the world’s financial institutions

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping the World Kevin Rudd

OUP USA, pp.624, 26.99

I don’t know what books Rachel Reeves keeps at her bedside, but, since the Treasury still seems to be setting the UK’s China policy, I heartily recommend that she read the former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd’s magnificent On Xi Jinping. Ideology and -isms may or may not be Reeves’s thing, but while the book is primarily a dissection of Xi’s Marxist, Leninist and nationalist ideas – ‘a form of intellectual biography’, in Rudd’s words – it is of practical value to policy-makers.

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