11/4/21 Peter Zeihan on American Power and China’s Coming Collapse

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Scott interviews author and geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan. Zeihan does not believe China will be a nation state ten years from now. One reason, he argues, is that China’s economy is completely dependent on the disappearing American presence keeping the peace on the world's oceans. This, of course, leads to a back and forth between him and Scott over just how much America’s presence overseas has been disappearing these last few decades. Zeihan also points to the policies the CCP used to regulate the birthrate, which he explains has led to an insufficient number of childbearing aged people to maintain the Chinese population. On top of that, the economy is built on a pile of debt that puts the country’s economy in jeopardy. Zeihan predicts the CCP will take an ultranationalist turn in response to all of these mounting problems. Something that may make war more likely. Discussed on the show: Zeihan’s Presentation on Youtube Peter Zeihan is an American geopolitical analyst, author, and speaker. He analyzes data from geography, demographics, and global politics to understand economic trends and make predictions. His books and newsletter can be found here at his website. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	Okay guys, introducing Peter Zion
0:49.0	and he is a geopolitical analyst and the author of a bunch of books here the absent superpower and the accidental superpower
0:57.1	Boy, I don't see it that way
1:00.4	Disunited nations the scramble for power in an ungoverned world.
1:05.0	These all seem very interesting, but what I know
1:09.0	is that someone sent me a YouTube video
1:12.0	where you debunk a lot of scaremongering about China and you say
1:16.8	here's what is true about China and here's what's not true about China and of course in the larger
1:22.2	context that we have a new Cold War brewing and a naval
1:26.0	build up and a narrative that China is trying very hard to become the regional hedman and that could lead even to war
1:35.3	because of the thudicity's trap and all of these things and so you're trying
1:40.5	to splash a little realism on the narrative.
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