''See also:'' [[Skepticism 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: [[Skepticism 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]]).