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Are We Sleepwalking Toward War?

Kevin Rudd issues chilling warning over China's plans to invade Taiwan

US expeditionary mobile base enters S.China Sea for 1st time, sending a worrying signal

Former Prime Minister Kevin RUDD

'And I think the second is this, to urge upon the Americans a stabilising mechanism for the bilateral US-China relationship ... to prevent what I would describe as "sleepwalking into war".'

Mr Rudd also warned that any war between the US and China would also result in a direct Chinese attack on Japan.

'A Chinese pre-emptive strike would try to take out American forces, probably in Guam (a US overseas…

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