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The John Batchelor Show

#PRC: Beijing weakening quickly; the Philippines refuses to obey. George Friedman @GPFutures

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#PRC: Beijing weakening quickly; the Philippines refuses to obey. George Friedman @GPFutures
https://geopoliticalfutures.com/benchmarking-china/



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0:00.0

Getting money from clients can feel I'm trying to wrestle honey from a grizzly bear.

0:04.2

But hasn't eaten in days.

0:06.4

While an emerald skunk clings to your leg.

0:08.5

Not now, scumkey.

0:09.6

But with zero online invoice payments through Tribe and Go Cardless,

0:12.6

you can give customers more ways to pay and keep your cash flow flowing.

0:16.8

Soon, rather than wrestling a grizzly bear,

0:18.8

it feels more like you're cuddling a koala bear.

0:21.9

On a really soft sofa while watching a favourite soap.

0:24.8

Oh God, believe she was her mother.

0:27.4

The healthy business search is here.

0:29.1

I'm within eggs.

0:35.1

This is CBS I'm the world.

0:36.4

I'm John Bachelor with George Friedman,

0:38.0

the founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures,

0:40.4

writing his column about China, the People's Republic of China.

0:45.0

All the metrics all the reporting these last weeks and months

0:48.6

point to a severe recession, which is what we'd call it.

0:52.4

In China's instance, it's not permitted.

0:55.0

So much not permitted that now we're learning that Xi Jinping

1:00.1

and the Chinese Communist Party have taken the bold step

1:02.5

of no longer reporting statistics that

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