China: State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi 

I am an Aussie. Kevin is our only Prime Minister who was a true scholar. Always liked his intellect in politics, and his study of Chinese language and culture. We must all survive in peace on this planet. Kevin is a man of humble origins who has lifted himself to the highest levels of intellect and diplomacy.

It turns out Kevin Rudd is still more powerful than Scott Morrison on the international stage. LOL

This is going to be heartbreaking for Scott Morrison, they can't get Wang Yi to pick up the phone, and Kevin can have them on RU-vid Program

Kevin Rudd is one of the few rational and intelligent leaders in the West. Australians are lucky to have him still providing leadership for Australia. This is a true valuable program. Yes I agree with those who said this should be listened to by every single Australian and their leaders. Peace, not war.

Omg you got Wang Yi on your program!!! Thank you for your fabulous outreach.

🌹🌻💐 to both FM Mr. Wang Yi and Mr. Kevin Rudd..👏👏 and hat off to both gentlemen..💯+1.. Agreed with what had been heard🌟👌..Very peaceful, very decisive and very sincerely in suggestions of 🤝🤝and work together for the sake of world wide wellbeing and long term prosperity in term of business trading 2 promote Economy Growth overall..Not thru political restrictions and blaming, finger-pointing irresponsible in order to enforce dominations over others for the Selfishness of Political Agendas..Hearing Mr. Rudd spoke Chinese, very impressed and inspired others to learn foreign languages if they have your determination and open-mindedness..😉👍..Many THANKS to Mr. Yi and Mr. Rudd for this 💘speech..Hopefully this 🎥 is aired world wide around the globes..💚🤝🕊😊🎋..

Thank you Kevin for promoting dialogue and cooperation

Kevin speaks the best Chinese I ever heard among top non-chinese politicians.

China and US are competitors, but they should respect and work together as much as their political and economic systems allow

It's stupid to fight each other in our small planet. China and US, along with other great countries, should work together to explore outer space for the future of our mankind.

Congrats and kudos to Asia Society for hosting this dialogue - always important to hear different voices especially those with whom you may not agree. Impressed by Kevin Rudd grasp of Chinese too !

Wow. Impressive that you got Wang Yi on this channel!

These discussions are great, fair & reasonable and prosperous. However i don't think any of the main media nor the current PM of Australia will watch & discuss this in the same way.

There are politicians, then there are statesmen.

Great dialogue! Hopefully that the people all around the world can work together to pursue a better life and a better world.

I love to see Australia and China work things out for the sake of both cvountry . No use to fight each other and get back to a normal tradeing partner.

Australia finally gets ministerial contact with China!

Actions speak louder than words.

I hope more everyday citizens in USA & World over listen 2 such talks , understand & appreciate how our Leaders should develop pragmatic policies for development of our countries.

Bilateral dialogue is the first step to resolve any misunderstanding and confusion. Congratulations to the Asia Society for its efforts to build a bridge of communication between China and the United States.

Fabulous 👏👏👏 We need more of this kind of dialogue between the west and China

China: State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi on RU-vid first time ever.

Great show. World needs more dialogue. Also Kevin Rudd inspiring many to learn mandarin.

If war broke out between these two giants, people all over the world would suffer even more

OMG, his Chinese is amazing!

I really liked the session and I hope that in future dialogue will replace propaganda on both sides. Kevin Rudd was as good as always and his closing speech addressed most of the critical topics. In am just curious why he left out the invitation to come to Xinjiang to evaluate the situation there.

My respect for Kevin rudd.

Kevin is a peace maker.

Very delicate touch at the end regarding Australia - China reopening dialogue 👍

你的中文说得很棒👍 So beautiful!!

Hope 2021 will be a better year for us all.

This is awesome.

This white guy speaks my language better than me... Onya Kev!

If Aussies have this type of understanding guy, why they didn't listen? Because politics never care about experts. Let's argue as much as we can but let's avoid nuclear war.

Really comprehensive and well thought out speech by Wang Yi from China's perspective. I agree with the core ideas and see many of the areas that US's actions have gone against those core ideas.

no Q&A?

Love from HongKong.

That was brilliant having him on but there are still some hard questions that need to be answered and will they be answered or will it be just riddles. ..lives are at stake literally!

It was a good comprehensive perspective from the Chinese foreign minister. I would have liked Kevin Rudd to ask him some difficult questions- I am sure that the minister would have answered them. The minister’s comments were good however, he left out the obvious unanswered questions on strong arming Australia, border conflict with India and some aggressive actions with Japan.

Damn, Kevin Rudd speaks Chinese like a pro.

US is afraid of losing it’s no 1 status in the world. Hence they are doing everything they can to hold on to their current position desperately, even if it has to be over others demise as they have always done. Remember Japan in the 80s? China has no interests in being no 1. They just want to be respected and recognized as a government that looks after its own peoples interests. Perhaps we should, as a global understanding forget about the meaningless GDP rankings. US can be forever no 1 if they want to, or if the world recognizes it to be.

This Caucasian man speaks mandarin really well.

This is truly Asian Society.

Australia once had Rudd as PM. Now!!! Omg how we have retreated.

at least Kevin Rudd has common sense about china.

Please think about international students to come back to china and study . We are suffering, we are stranded. We need to complete our studies from school

What happen to covid 19?

18:08 Zhao Lijian walk by.

An important and telling video - but at the end of the day this is all just talk. We all know behind closed doors, push comes to shove.

yes, china is very appreciate to have a good friend Kevin Luck

The coronavirus gave the world an opportunity to come together for the common good, squandered.

His ''excellency''..???!!!

Can we have a proper discussion about Taiwan? That would be great.

3:54 - "International Rules based Order"????

his mandarin is good

wolf warrior diplomat casually passing by 18:08

What he says is diobolically opposite to what chinese do ? ? ?

Kevin speaks good chinese. Fantastic

The UN EEZ law needs to be redone. It is totally unfair and unequitable piece of policy/law. Countries with huge coastlines and minimal amount of neighbors gets an unfair advantage, especially countries like Canada and Australia with a small population of 37.7 million and 25.5 million respectively. While a country like China with 1.4 billion and surrounded by many neighbors get screwed with this EEZ BS. ASEAN countries is also screwed because of so many countries get packed together. Northern Europe is another example of a crowded space. EEZ needs to shrink down to no more than 50 miles from the coastline or even smaller for countries with insane amount of coastline. Reform the EEZ.

Tibet and the Muslims may have a slightly different view on his take.

Kevin speaks Chinese very well as well as English... every one lives him

Kev, you seem to change your tune depending on which audience you are taking, voice of reason vs anti Chinese, hope the Chinese are monitoring your double talk.....

The Worlds oceans are in deep trouble of envornmental collapse from Chinese fishing. Discuss....

Kevin, please visit Xinjiang and Tibet yourself and bear witness rather than taking the chicken way out by saying that there are opposing views.

Free trade is the right tio travel into other countries with a freedom of Navegation treaty. And it does not mean a freedom of invaasion of other Nations with armed Naval power to get fredom of Military Navegation wich is a violation of countries Sovereing status. Not a freedom of trade.

Wang Yi can you explain China's aggressive territorial expansion in the South China Sea, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, India and Japan

Hon. Rudd, thank you for your extraordinary work, of which I am an avid follower. With all due respect, however, it was very difficult to listen to Minister Yi's speech, much of which sounded to me personally as pure propaganda and contradictory to many of China's recent actions, especially in the South China Sea and in the economic destruction of fragile nations' economies through BRI policies and practices.

So the moderator do not know how China has treated India and Hong Kong and people within China other countries islands and threats against countries around the world? And much more.

Is militarizing the islets in South China Sea a “win-win” arrangement between CCP & the Asean countries, Mr. Wang?

I hope China has not forgot the aid Australia and other countries sent to China when they were starving.

I have to say the translators sound disappointing to me.

I have never seen Kevin Rudd feeling and displaying so much discomfort and nervousness! His uncomfortable body language is testament to his inner conflict, his disagreement yet his reluctance to debate Chinese foreign minister's atrocious rhetorics, and mostly importantly - the universal moral & ethical values that pricked him like he's sitting on a bed of sharp nails! Lol!

Chinese propaganda. So much bs here!

This Wang Yi is just a talking head full of sawdust!

Then why don't they speak about what they are doing to Australia and why don't these men talk to the current Australian prime Minister and not Kevin there lap dog .

接受这种访谈时讲几句话居然还要照稿念，这种外交部长实在仍然不敢恭维！这真不能算是合格的外交官，典型的官僚或者甚至就是党棍！ When accepting such an interview, only a few words he still has to read from the manuscript. This is really not a qualified diplomat, a typical bureaucrat！

Propaganda is the word !

11:57 "open and lawful political parties"- haha the CCP lawful? hahahahaha

All sides need to abide by the rules, and that means China as well. For all to get on it is not a do what I say, not as I do. Australia asked to find the origin of Covid 19 so that it could start producing a vaccine. It needed that and China seemed offended.

Bring back the jobs to North America!!!!

The CCP needs younger leaders at the top.