According to the former PM of Australia, Kevin Rudd: " 1. The centrality of the party, keeping the party in power for the long term, as well as Xi's power with

According to the former PM of Australia, Kevin Rudd: " 1. The centrality of the party, keeping the party in power for the long term, as well as Xi's power within the party; 2. Consolidating the internal unity of the country; 3. Maintaining sustainable economic growth to ensure a continued increase in Chinese living standards, breaking though the "middle-income trap," while balancing now against a parallel requirement for environmental protection now demanded by China's urban elites; 4. Keeping China's 14 bordering countries in a benign, and preferably supine state; 5. On China's maritime periphery, projecting its regional naval and air power, politically fracturing U.S. alliances in Asia, and ultimately removing the United States from the immediate region militarily; 6. Leveraging its economic power across China's vast continental periphery, causing Eurasia, and in time the Middle East and Africa to become accommodating to China's economic, foreign policy, and security interests; 7. and Reforming parts, but by no means all, of the post-war international rules-based order over time to better suit its interests, and to better reflect China's domestic values rather than those of the post-war consensus. "