perhaps no country in the world and certainly no country of any significant size has grown as much

as China has over the last four decades. And what makes us even more amazing is that six decades

ago, China was literally losing tens of millions of people to everything from state-imposed

famines to gulags to purges and everything in

between. So the fact that people have been fascinated by this massive growth that the People's Republic

of China has experienced over the last 60 years is not confusing at all. In fact, many people

have already claimed that China surpassed the United

States. You might remember this conversation that Tucker Carlson had with Vladimir Putin,

where Putin asserted that China was already the leading economic superpower in the world and on its

way to be a leading military power as well. The question is, is is is it true? And what we're going to do today is we're going to look

at three indicators, three indicators that apply to every country, not just China, in order to

determine kind of what the future looks like. And I'm going to be so bold as to say that it would

be reasonable for, well, I'll put it this way. Some people will look at

this and be like, yes, China's on the ascendancy and it's not stopping. Even if they got a couple

hiccups coming, they're still on the ascendancy. Other people are saying, well, no, China's going to

plateau a little bit, right? You can't have 9% GDP growth year after year indefinitely, right? They're

going to plateau a little bit and we'll see how they navigate that and that'll be interesting.

And yet other people are suggesting that China might be in for one of the sharpest declines

that we've ever seen a country go through in modern history. And these three indicators that

we discussed today is what we're going to

use to try to decipher who we think is probably right. I'm your host, Nick Freitas, with me in the

studio, my beautiful bright Tina Queen of the Bees. Hello, everyone. And then of course,

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