Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Triggernometry" channel.

To be fair, it was not Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who started the war against Bangladesh / East Pakistan but his predecessor, Yahya Khan. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was handed the presidency after Bhutto was overthrown by his fellow army colleagues because he lost the war.
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"If you want honest conversations with fascinating people, Triggernometry is for you." If you want dishonest conversations with boring people, there's now the new Dave Rubin Show.
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Sorry, that was very snarky, but hopefully, a little funny.
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35:20 (Re. China) "By 2050 their population will be less than half of what it is today". I've heard Peter Zeihan say this on multiple occasions recently, but it is simply not physically possible, barring a major deadly epidemic or nuclear war. We can expect that almost all people under the age of 50 today will still be alive in 2050 (28 years from now they'll be 78). Well, China currently has 900 million under 50 years of age, and there will still be some children born between now and then. By 2050, China's population will most likely be around 1.15 Billion, or about 260 million fewer than today. A halving of China's current population will most likely happen as soon as 2080. By 2100 it could be as low as 450 million.
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@sleepingtoss Yes, Zeihan has said many times that China has overestimated the population. This is based on the Wisconsin researcher Yi FuXian, who has written books with this claim. But there is no real evidence that that should be true. By 2050, the Chinese work force will be 65% of the population, as opposed to 70% today. In total numbers: 980 m today, 750 m in 2050. But that is not what Zeihan is saying. He is making two major claims: 1: By 2050, the population will be halved (This is simply not possible, barring natural disasters). 2: By the end of this decade, China will seize to be a functioning state. That is also a ridiculous claim. Worst case, China's economy may be shrinking, but even that is highly unlikely.
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