Former Prime Minister of Australia, and now Australia’s Ambassador to the United States, Dr Kevin Rudd, in discussion with Ben Rhodes about the US’ vital role in managing strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific - against the backdrop of a consequential US election. Ambassador Rudd is the author of ‘The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China’, an internationally acclaimed authoritative text on contemporary China. He has been widely published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the world’s preeminent China scholars.