From demographics to hidden debt, defaulting developers to a looming collapse of property value, Gordon G. Chang in 1945 argues that China faces an economic death spiral. The once-formidable dragon has stretched itself too thin and its proclivities of secrecy and total control will likely prevent recognizing and implementing what needs to be done. For more on China from C2C, check out The Beaver and the Dragon.

A Man Who’d Do Anything to Evade the Truth
Spiked’s Matt Ridley details Anthony Fauci’s “public-sector version of insider trading.” Subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate to “discuss” the origin of Covid-19, the longest-serving and highest-paid U.S. bureaucrat instead invoked the Fifth Amendment (protecting against self-incrimination) some 111 times. Strange; he’d been pardoned by President Joe Biden. Nevertheless, it’s clear Fauci lied to the American people about nearly everything – starting with Covid’s true origins in the Wuhan lab. Further, his bizarre diary (saved to a government computer) details his “nauseating narcissism and gobsmacking greed,” says Ridley, and shows he cared more about his own fame than about ailing Americans.


