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The Rise and Fall of China with Michael Beckley [S2 Ep.25]

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Get China's Level of Power Wrong

A lot of china's wealth and power gets sucked away simply by the huge cost of having to take care of the largest population in the world. When you do that, your china’s wealth is a lot less impressive than it might otherwise seem. Its military power is a much less impressive. Its trade volumes around the world, its omatic outreach. For all these reasons, a lot ofchina's wealth get sucked away just because they have such large populations.

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