{"id":1868,"date":"2010-08-17T17:32:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T22:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2010-08-17T17:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T22:45:03","slug":"china%e2%80%99s-demise-is-it-really-just-around-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/china\/china%e2%80%99s-demise-is-it-really-just-around-the-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Demise; is it Really Just Around the Corner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Predictions of China\u2019s implosion keep turning up on a regular basis, usually with the assurance that it&#8217;s just around the corner.  Well, to celebrate her rise to spot number two among the world\u2019s strongest economies, here\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2010\/08\/16\/gordon-chang-china-economy-japan-united-states-gross-domestic-product\/\"> yet another demonstration<\/a> that, because a =b, and b=c, her collapse is a foregone conclusion.  Wishful thinking?  That\u2019s what it\u2019s always turned out to be in the past.  It better happen pretty soon, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_G._Chang\">Gordon Chang<\/a>, the prophet of doom who penned the article, will have egg on his face.  He published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gordonchang.com\/qanda.htm\">whole book<\/a> on the subject back in 2001 promising that China would go belly up by 2011.  He probably should have cut himself a bit more slack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Chinese-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Chinese-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chinese poster\" width=\"470\" height=\"497\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Chinese-poster.jpg 470w, https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Chinese-poster-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 85vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=China%E2%80%99s+Demise%3B+is+it+Really+Just+Around+the+Corner%3F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/china\/china%e2%80%99s-demise-is-it-really-just-around-the-corner\/\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predictions of China\u2019s implosion keep turning up on a regular basis, usually with the assurance that it&#8217;s just around the corner. Well, to celebrate her rise to spot number two among the world\u2019s strongest economies, here\u2019s yet another demonstration that, because a =b, and b=c, her collapse is a foregone conclusion. Wishful thinking? That\u2019s what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/china\/china%e2%80%99s-demise-is-it-really-just-around-the-corner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China\u2019s Demise; is it Really Just Around the Corner?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwEq0-u8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}