Hello and welcome to the Dragon Rises, Tiger's Paw, a new podcast from the Lindbergh Institute

on Pacific and Semitic Affairs along with MPR Virginia and WNYC Chicago.

Hello, my name is Brace Belden.

I'm a senior China analyst at the Lindbergh Institute of Diplomacy and a Hunter Biden

Fellow at the Holy Cross High School.

And I'm Liz Franzak, Director of Chinese Voices at the Rich Little Institute of Impressions

in Jackie Chan Scholar at Movie Phone University.

We're of course joined by our illustrious producer, Young Joe M. Ski, who runs a mysterious

import export shop where I once purchased a Gremlin.

So glad to be here today.

The 20th century was widely known to be the American century, due to the fact that the USA

wasn't in Europe when there were two big wars there.

But is that century over?

Many experts point to the 20th century ending some 23 years ago, which some experts

think might mean the end of America too.

It's well known that every country gets one century, and the recent chronological changes

in time have many in Washington worried.

Over in China, Premier Xi Jinping has also noticed that the century has changed to a new

one.

Is he wondering, like our president here, if this could be the Chinese century?

There are lots of Chinese people.

True.

...