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Reevaluating China’s Economic Ascendancy: Lessons From Past Overhyped Predictions

Reevaluating China’s Economic Ascendancy: Lessons From Past Overhyped Predictions
A Chinese vendor sells sneakers and shoes in the street in front of a sign showing Chinese leader Xi Jinping with "China Dream" written on it, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China, on April 9, 2017. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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It won’t come as a surprise to most Epoch Times readers to note that the long inescapable truism that China was about to emerge as the greatest economic power in the world has mercifully ceased.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.
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