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It's Wednesday, a Hoover Institution broadcast devoted to social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen, I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I'll be your moderator today. That means I get to introduce the stars of our show.

That would be the economist John Cochran, the historian Neil Ferguson, the geostrategist,

Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, the R. Hoover Institution senior fellows all.

Needle, let's start with you today. We're going to talk about China. And I want to talk about

China by way of Aspen. And by way of Aspen, I mean that you wrote a column based upon your

experience attending the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.

You very cleverly talked about what happened there in which it was a conversation full of gloom and doom about America's demographic challenges.

Hey, Doom, what a great title for a book, by the way.

Anyway, your column very cleverly pivoted off of America's demographics, Neil, and you went into China.

So let's talk about that today.

Let's talk about what China is facing in terms of his growth.

Neil, in terms what it means is a world power.

John Woda pretends for China's economic engine, HR, the geopolitical concerns.

Can China do guns and butter at the same time?

So, Neil, you have the floor.

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