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We see risks in three areas this year, all stemming from Maximum Xi. The ill-effects of centralized decision-making on public health will continue with the spread of Covid-19. Xi's drive for state control of China's economy will produce arbitrary decisions, policy volatility, and heightened uncertainty for a country already weakened by two years of extreme pandemic-mitigation efforts. Finally, Xi's nationalist views and assertive foreign policy will increasingly provoke resistance from the West and from China's Asian neighbors.<ref>[https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eurasia-group-publishes-top-risks-110000770.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9yYXRpb25hbHdpa2kub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALIHBwLYbh4x1jBSKOHbkFoiqsLaoqhonc8ESijGhCSTqg_4vZPziF7b68IrhJfdPbu8zQhpV1FHlMfmDjbIVCUk41vltMrI-qnet6U19B6k0rM1ah0MBZcwGSJM3T_BaEciT8RielUcHfC6lAyvEptGfEDOvQ0MpXMp8E-DJ9V4 Eurasia Group publishes "Top Risks" predictions for 2023], Yahoo Finance, January 3, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST</ref>}}

We see risks in three areas this year, all stemming from Maximum Xi. The ill-effects of centralized decision-making on public health will continue with the spread of Covid-19. Xi's drive for state control of China's economy will produce arbitrary decisions, policy volatility, and heightened uncertainty for a country already weakened by two years of extreme pandemic-mitigation efforts. Finally, Xi's nationalist views and assertive foreign policy will increasingly provoke resistance from the West and from China's Asian neighbors.<ref>[https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eurasia-group-publishes-top-risks-110000770.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9yYXRpb25hbHdpa2kub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALIHBwLYbh4x1jBSKOHbkFoiqsLaoqhonc8ESijGhCSTqg_4vZPziF7b68IrhJfdPbu8zQhpV1FHlMfmDjbIVCUk41vltMrI-qnet6U19B6k0rM1ah0MBZcwGSJM3T_BaEciT8RielUcHfC6lAyvEptGfEDOvQ0MpXMp8E-DJ9V4 Eurasia Group publishes "Top Risks" predictions for 2023], Yahoo Finance, January 3, 2023 at 6:00 AM EST</ref>}}

== Pessimism about China remaining a global power ==

=== Pessimism about China remaining a global power ===

''See also:'' [[Pessimism about China remaining a global power]] and [[Atheism and leadership]]

''See also:'' [[Pessimism about China remaining a global power]] and [[Atheism and leadership]]

China faces a number of serious intractable problems. A number of leading geopolitical analysts are pessimistic about [[China]]'s remaining a global power (See: [[Pessimism about China remaining a global power]]). The American geopolitical analyst and author Peter Zeihan said in 2022, "I do not worry about China at all... I don't think that there is going to be a China for much longer."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKFsn8xwQSw Energy at the End of the World | Part 4 | Demographics | Peter Zeihan]</ref>  

China faces a number of serious intractable problems. A number of leading geopolitical analysts are pessimistic about [[China]]'s remaining a global power (See: [[Pessimism about China remaining a global power]]). The American geopolitical analyst and author Peter Zeihan said in 2022, "I do not worry about China at all... I don't think that there is going to be a China for much longer."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKFsn8xwQSw Energy at the End of the World | Part 4 | Demographics | Peter Zeihan]</ref>  

China has [[state atheism]] and the fall of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] due to economic and other societal problems would cause a large drop in the [[Global atheism|global atheist population]] (See: [[Future of atheism in China]] and [[China and atheism]] and [[Collapse of atheism in the former Soviet Union]]).

China has [[state atheism]] and the fall of the Chinese Communist Party due to economic and other societal problems would cause a large drop in the [[Global atheism|global atheist population]] (See: [[Future of atheism in China]] and [[China and atheism]] and [[Collapse of atheism in the former Soviet Union]]).

==Biden family collusion with the CCP==

==Biden family collusion with the CCP==