[stars & stripes forever]

A ‘wounded’ CHINA is desperate and dangerous.

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The ‘China Century’ Is Over

https://issuesinsights.com/2023/08/25/the-china-century-is-over/

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For decades we’ve heard that China will some day, very soon, be the world’s hegemon, both through its stunning economic growth and its rising military might. Move over, America, here comes China. Just as the 1900s were the “American Century,” the 2000s would be the “China Century.” Not so fast.

Google “The China Century” and you get 1 billion hits. It’s that ingrained as an economic truism.

But in recent years, China has entered a kind of doom loop of debt accumulation, population shrinkage and a productivity slowdown that is eroding its once powerful economic growth and threatens to halt many of the economic advances it made over the last 50 years.

[norsky]

A ‘wounded’ CHINA is desperate and dangerous. ********************************************* The ‘China Century’ Is Over

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correct, think Germany and WW2, think Taiwan as a carrot.