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This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. With the U.S. supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia and Israel in its war against Hamas, it's a particularly hazardous time to risk armed

conflict with China.

The competitive contentious relationship between China and the U.S. has been at its lowest point in decades.

So it's significant that President Biden and President

She of China met yesterday.

We're going to talk about the results of that meeting

and what life is like in China under

Shing who has become increasingly authoritarian. My guest is Evan Osnos, a

staff writer for the New Yorker. In his recent New Yorker article, China's Age of Malaise, he writes about how

China's economic boom has ended, and he considers the question, is a stagnating China more

likely to end up at war with the US or less.

Osnost examines how President Shee's rule and the country's economic problems

are affecting China's relations with the US and countries like

Russia and Iran, and how she has been controlling the government, the military, the media, pop

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