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As I grew up, everyone said for decades that China is about to collapse. It hasn’t, and it distorts some perspectives as you see the urban and global progress a
by tokioyoyo 1y ago
As I grew up, everyone said for decades that China is about to collapse. It hasn’t, and it distorts some perspectives as you see the urban and global progress as a result of Chinese nation-building.
The early 80s were similar, when Japanese economy was in every single headline and being compared to the USA’s. The difference is, this time China has already surpassed the states in most of meaningful statistics.
- corimaith 1y ago>As I grew up, everyone said for decades that China is about to collapse. Who is "everyone" here? MSM and Economists has been largely singing praise to China's model for the last 2 decades, unless if you count the occasional critique or caveats which they do equally for everyone including America. Frankly speaking, I see far more complaining about the aformentioned "China will collapse" in every China thread than I see people actually saying "China will collapse", and pointing to some fringe youtube channels or individuals like Gordon Chang isn't really indicative of anything beyond strawmanning.