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PPL managed lotteries on behalf of the good causes 18 plus conditions apply play responsibly not I in the world. I'm Jean Bachelor with my colleague and friend Gordon Chang and we welcome Ann Stevenson Yang and is author of a new book forthcoming. I'm very much looking forward to it.

Wild Ride, China's short-lived experiment in capitalism. We have some metrics today that suggest that the wild ride is bucking

especially harshly at this moment. I begin with a GDP announcement by the authorities in Beijing of 5.2% claiming that that is what they were aiming for in growth.

We also have a number out of the Wall Street Journal reporting, China's population decline accelerates as

women skip motherhood bursts goes to subhead.

Bursts continue to plummet.

China ended 2023 with 1.410 billion people a drop of 2.08 million.

And what I've learned over the years, anecdotally, is that a growing population is prosperity and a shrinking

population is the other thing does that connect to what we're getting from China

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