Chinese agriculture was never particularly productive. Now that everybody's moved into a city and everyone's been in a city for 20 years, they've forgotten how to farm like that. They can't go back. And the type of agriculture that the Chinese need to grow their food in the areas they need to grow it can't be mechanized very easily. So we're looking at a population collapse and a food collapse. At the same time, we're likely to see a manufacturing collapse on a political collapse. There's a long list of bullets that are in the magazine that is in the gun that's pointed at China's head right now.
Who has the upper hand when Apple’s CEO walks into a room with the President of the People’s Republic of China?
Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist and the author of “The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.” Bill Mann caught up with Zeihan to discuss:
- Why Apple is diversifying production away from China - What an aging population means for the United States economy - Why de-dollarization is less likely than many think
Company discussed: APPL
Host: Bill Mann Guest: Peter Zeihan Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd
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