This is CBS, I On the World.

I'm John Bachelor with Gregory Coppity, my mentor and colleague,

Defense and Foreign Affairs editor and publisher,

as well as the author of the new book, Noble State.

And we'll come to the King Charles Report.

But we're in Beijing first.

And Gregory, for some time time has led me to understand

that we must look into the latter part of this century for a time when Beijing will be in a

democratic collapse following the collapse of its economy, built entirely on the deceptions

and the thievery of the Chinese Communist Party's

Ministry of State Security. However, that will be behind us. And therefore, what are we looking

at in the latter part of this century? What's the world look like without the Chinese threat?

Gregory, thank you for this, looking beyond. It's challenging sometimes

because I don't expect to be here in the year 2050. But China has a younger generation that is

inadequate to take care of the older generation. They're in a demographic, demographic self-destruction mode now,

and there's nothing they can do about it because of that not-headedness of one-child policy.

So beyond China's threat, where is the emphasis in the Indo-Pacific, where is it in Oceania,

where is it in Europe? Thank you. Well, John, I think that's what's

important to understand is that the implosion, the collapse of China, the People's Republic of

China, very specifically, has already occurred. Xi Jinping is no longer effectively in power.

He's been reigned into a, if you like, a token position, particularly during and since

the fourth plenum in late October.

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