US-China strategic competition to keep escalating as world watches on, Rudd says

Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society and former Australian prime minister, stated during a Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics event on Friday that United States-China strategic competition will continue to escalate.

Rudd characterized the ongoing rivalry between the two superpowers as "full-on and multidimensional," noting that a "full-blown strategic competition" is currently under way.