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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Oire Ogunby. And I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Last year, oil and gas prices soared across Europe, and that weaponization of energy by Russia was bound to cost lives.

Our data team finds that our grim prediction of tens of thousands of needless deaths was correct.

And before Pemetsyedin, there were no feature films in the Tibetan language.

Tibet had no cameramen, no actors, no directors before him.

Our obituaries editor looks back on a life spent bringing a Tibetan's unhurried, thoughtful

gaze to the big screen.

First up, though.

There's a lot of talk lately, not least in the pages of the economist, about peak China.

Last year, for example, the country's population dropped, a bit, for the first time in 80 years.

But what about the peak of China's military power?

Just how dominant might it become and when?

So in the last few months, some American scholars have made the argument that China's

relative power is peaking because the economy is now slowing, its population is shrinking,

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