It feels like The Economist and other Western oligarch media have been saying that China is going to collapse "next week" for decades. Almost like they have some sort of anti-reality agenda.
The reality of China is that their GDP stats are so systematically faked and so clearly don't add up that nobody actually knows whether China is economically healthy, not even Xi Jinping. In such a scenario, China could collapse at any time, and past performance is not a predictor of future results .
At a macro-level, Chinese federal statistics are decently trustworthy in the 2020s, and there is enough transnational trade and dealflow that egregious tampering can and would be caught, and is very damaging.
> China could collapse at any time
There is a difference between stagnant/slowing growth (which is what is happening) and "collapse" (nowhere near that level).
Nor would you want to wish a Chinese "collapse".
It's because of rhetoric like yours that other Chinese people automatically dismiss policymakers abroad who are trying to push for reforms for an economically stabler China - which itself requires healthy engagement with the world.