I'm strong and getting it.

So I was reading about this the other day and I thought you might find it interesting.

Everybody's predicting that China will pass the US's the biggest economy on Earth by 2030

or whatever.

Different people throw out different numbers.

But this piece written by who's this written by is really good.

I'll tell you later.

But the nightmare scenario for she is that China could follow the same trajectory as Japan.

Also touted as a potential challenger to the US before it crashed three decades ago.

Combination of reform, failure, international isolation, financial crisis could halt China

before it reaches the top.

It's also worth mentioning that China's official GDP data is almost certainly exaggerated.

And so they have a bigger gap than it appears.

And then they go into some technical stuff about the three factors that determine an

economy's growth rate.

That's a workforce, capital stock, everything from factories to transport infrastructure to communications

networks.

And finally, there's productivity or how effectively those first two can be combined.

And in each of those areas, China faces an uncertain future at best like their workforce.

They have a demographic nightmare going on thanks to their long time one child policy.

Nobody's having kids.

And if fertility stays low, it's projected to shrink by more than 260 million people in

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