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#PRC: Rebecca Grant, president of IRIS Independent Research and a visiting fellow of the Lexington Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#PRC: Rebecca Grant, president of IRIS Independent Research and a visiting fellow of the Lexington Institute, @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill:

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-vs-china-economy-europe-global-decoupling-wall-street-markets-2024-2

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This is CBS, I in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Gordon Chang at Gordon T. Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend,

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decoupling from China, de-risking from China. I mentioned as we begin this conversation with Rebecca Grant,

0:45.4

president of virus independent research, visiting fellow at the Lexington Institute,

0:51.2

that a feature in the Wall Street Journal in these last hours emphasizes

0:55.9

China's future in a gloomy fashion that not even numbers from Wall Street

1:01.9

can predict. This has to do with child rearing and the

1:07.3

number of babies per family and the willingness or unwillingness of young women to have many children or children at all.

1:17.0

What we have here is the direct result of bad decisions and errors and stupidity made by Deng Xiaoping, the man credited with the Chinese

1:28.2

miracle mandating the One Child Policy in 1980.

1:31.5

Gordon, you've long spoken of the one child policy as tyranny.

1:36.4

Now it looks to be also self-destruction. Is China recognizing this as it talks to its people? Is this a topic to be raised by the Chinese Communist Party, Gordon?

1:48.0

Well, the regime is talking about the need for Chinese couples to have children and they've been

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