Throw a red carpet down the drive, rope off your front gate, and tip off the paparazzi because you could have a VIP, a very important postcode.

In our February draws, players in the winning postcode will each win 12,000 pounds every month for 12 months and get to enjoy an unforgettable experience enabled through our charity partners.

Sign up before midnight tonight to play with People's Post Code Lottery,

where good things come knocking.

PPL managed Lotteries on behalf of good causes.

18-plus conditions apply, play responsibly,

not available in Northern Ireland.

This is John Bachelor, a conversation

with my colleague Charles Burton of the McDonallory Institute

about China's sinking economy and what is the possibility of it reviving in a cycle or with foreign investment coming back

looking for opportunities as it did in the late 20th century and early 21st century.

Charles, who is a Mandarin speaker as well as well traveled in China, speaks to the

Chinese state as it is now presented by Shijinping as a security state, not as an economic growth state, and what is the likelihood

of foreign investors finding that attractive?

Again, here's Charles Burton.

I mean certainly people have a kind of, I don't know, path dependency and nostalgia about the allure of making big bucks out of China, but when the Premier Li Li Chang was in Davos and reported on the growth

rates of the Chinese economy these statistics were widely discredited by by

economists who have a you have a more realistic grasp of where the Chinese

economy is going and so I'm inclined to think that it's over I don't think that

any Western investor that has any kind of sense would see

China under current conditions as a place to put their money. Not only the demographic decline

in the general, you know, decline in the real estate sector and high rates of unemployment among youth and all of these, you know, negative indicators, but the way that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to address it

...