Hi everyone. I'm Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist's editor in chief.
Welcome back to The Insider.
This week, we are asking, is China the new superpower?
And with me to discuss that, as always, is Ed Carr, deputy editor.
Very nice to see you.
Hi, Zanny.
And two of our top China experts, Alice Su,
who is now our international correspondent here in London,
but until recently, Alice was in Taiwan for us.
Very nice to see you, Alice.
And David Rennie, geopolitics editor, known to all of you as host of Inside Geopolitics,
but until quite recently, our longstanding Beijing bureau chief.
You were there through the pandemic.
Six years in total, right?
That's right.
David, very nice to see you.
Thank you.
This has been a pretty pivotal year for China.
We spend a lot of time talking about Donald Trump,
but actually, it's been a year in which a lot of things have gone well for China.