Welcome to the Dispatch podcast. I'm not Sarah Isger. I'm Mike Warren. That is Jonah Goldberg.

That is Steve Hayes. We are going to be talking about China and the Biden administration's efforts

to change that relationship. We'll be talking of course about elections. We're now a week

out from that first debate. Has anything changed in the Republican field? And we'll be talking

about, yes, impeachment and what is going to happen in Congress with Biden? All that coming up.

All right, China. So Gina Imondo, the Commerce Secretary in the Biden administration, just

wrapped up a three day trip in China. She's the fourth Biden cabinet member in the last couple

of months to visit China. Sort of an attempt to reset relationships between the United States

government and Beijing. And this is coming at a time when China's economy is kind of going through

a struggle. Jonah, you wrote your column this week about what's going on with China's economy

and whether or not the rest of the world should care, should, you know, does this matter?

What's going on? What are your thoughts at the moment on what's going on in China and how the

Biden administration is trying to navigate it? Yeah, so I mean, there are a lot of different things

going on. I did not write about the Gina Imondo Biden outreach stuff too much. But China's economy

has, the string has run out, it seems, on it. Now, that doesn't mean it's going to implode and

there'll be halter skelter and fighting in the streets and and the regime will be overthrown.

As much as I would like to see that last part happen, the big, the big picture stuff is that

Xi Jinping has basically decided that the the era that Deng Xiaoping ushered in where he said

it is glorious to get rich is over. And some of the things that Xi has done based on that conclusion

have been positive. He's, he did crack down a lot on corruption and there was a lot of corruption

and that's one of the reasons why he had a good reputation in China was that he was considered

somewhat incorruptible in part because his wife is this super rich pop star. But, but if it

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