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The China Paper Dragon Is Dying – But Still Dangerous

AND: Some weeks ago I wrote in these pages that China Is A Dying Paper Dragon that cannot survive much longer because of its imploding economy and its rapidly aging population. This week newspapers and the internet finally exploded with headlines like: “China Enters the Doom Loop,” “Default of State-Backed Developer Sino-Ocean Signals China’s Economic Crisis,” and “Why is China not rushing to fix its ailing economy?”

The sudden frenzy is exemplified by The Epoch Times publishing China’s July statistics, showing that their economy is collapsing years ahead of my optimistic estimate. Epoch Times journalist Terri Wu wrote: “The world’s second-largest economy has been struggling for months, failing to achieve the post-pandemic boom that many had anticipated. The latest July data release showed exports posting its sharpest year-on-year drop since before the pandemic, and imports at five straight months of decline. Factory-gate prices fell for the 10th consecutive month, while new home sales saw its most significant monthly drop since July 2022,” adding, “China has slid into deflation after months of disappointing exports, manufacturing, home sales, and youth employment results.” more

7 Comments on The China Paper Dragon Is Dying – But Still Dangerous

  1. Two thoughts. First, when a nation, and in particularly a powerful nation, gets in trouble, the last resort is military aggression. What do they have to lose when they are already failing?

    Second, politicians are not “doers,” they just order producers around without having any of the necessary experience or expertise to make these policy decisions. A government controlled economy will almost always fail; witness the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. etc. This is where we are headed – we have women’s studies majors trying to control our energy policy.

    Over the past few decades, I have run across innumerable socialists/communists, and all of them have been morons whose policies are not only logically incoherent, but doomed to fail. Just the opposite of “intellectual elite” – only more dangerous.

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  2. “The China Paper Dragon Is Dying”

    And DJT killed it. They can hold hands with North Korea because that’s where they are headed. More dangerous now than ever. If our CIA actually worked for America they’d be over there trying to start as many internal problems as the could.

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  3. The war will start in 2 months or less. Dictators hold power by starting wars and Winnie the Pooh is 100 times as intelligent and calculated as the Pedo.

    He owns the Pedo and will strike while the imbecilic child molester is in office. Who will step up, Commieliar Cackles?

    God help us, it will be miracle if we survive. I fully anticipate another lock down attempt and postponing of the election due to a national emergency so that President ValJar can continue to decimate this nation at will.

    It may be as soon as October as the two best months to traverse the strait are Oct/April.

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