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Beijing is preparing for a big gathering.

On Sunday, the top brass of the Chinese Communist Party will meet amid the scarlet carpets and the towering marble columns of the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square for the 20th Party Congress.

The meetings held every five years have been used to stage orderly transfers of power between generations of leaders.

But this Congress may be marked by a break in convention.

Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term. During his decade-long reign, he's amassed more power and wielded it more ruthlessly than any leader since Mao Zitong.

His perched rivals stripped citizens of their individual rights and he's trying to reshape the world order from within as sees power grows so does China's ambition.

This is the economist asks, I'm Ann McHale-Voy and this week we're asking, where will Xi Jinping take China next? Understanding what the man at the top thinks has never been more important.

My guest, Kevin Rudd, has spent many years trying to do just that.

He was Australia's Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010 and again in 2013. He met Xi several times during his political career when they'd converse in Mandarin.

Since leaving politics, Mr Rudd has become an authority on all things Xi. As president of the Asia Society and through his scholarship, he's just earned a PhD from Oxford on the Chinese leaders' worldview.

Kevin Rudd, welcome to the economist asks.

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