There are too many people getting older, and ot nough young people been born. So the chinese are now quite anticondom, because they want people to have children. The single thing that you'll hear from they don't really do focuscripts in china, but that it's badly expensive. And if i've got kids, i've got to send them to after school clubs. They have little tutors to help tem go nt the best universities. But mind, my own view, is that if you want to stop people having children, you all encourge ment to have children oa bit of free alcohol and some good music on a friday night.
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and author of two seminal recent books on the shifting geopolitics of the world: The Silk Roads and its follow-up, The New Silk Roads. He speaks to fellow historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore at the Cliveden Literary Festival about how we may be currently witnessing the end of a historical era amid the emergence of a brand new one.
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