This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. There's been a lot of conversation about Chinese's emergence as a superpower over the last

couple of decades and most recently because of the tariff war that seems to be going on.

I even did a podcast on leadership

and I juxtapose Chinese, China's leader,

Xi Xin Ping versus Donald Trump,

and I thought it was really powerful.

As an American, you know, it's important that we of course praise ourselves

and we, you know, allowed our leadership and our power and our might,

but we have to be realistic because nations are powerful until they aren't. People are powerful

until they aren't. And usually there's something that precedes the loss of power. There's

usually a precursor or a foreshadowing of how that power will be lost and people usually fail because they don't pay attention to history. There's nothing new under the sun, the fall of Greece, the fall of Africa,

the fall of Egypt, the fall of Rome, all had a precursor, the fall of Great Britain, the fall of

Russia. There was all there was something that happened. precursor, the fall of Great Britain, the fall of Russia,

there was something that happened to make that happen.

And it's usually greed and myopia.

You know, usually being myopic will allow you to believe some things that aren't true and will allow you to make moves that are not wise.

People succeed because they first get good counsel, but also because they are students of history.

So I want us to do that.

And part of this podcast, and the reason why I broke down Jijing Ping's background and

how he emerged and rose to power is because there is a story

arc that can be followed.

Ten years from now, do not be surprised if America is no longer a superpower. I don't want to see that

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