Yeah, no shit.
The western capitalist countries are trying to distract their citizens from seeing progress China has made especially in the last two or three decades. They're making a complete mockery of the US and our withering and crumbling ... everything.
If any country is on the brink of collapse I'd put way more bets on it being the one who has alienated itself by warmongering and actively invading and couping countries all over the world for 100 years. A country that dumps every resource it can muster into a perverted fusion of private and public military contract system resulting in overproduction of a worthless (from actual improvement of society) commodities that it then dumps en masse into developing countries.
It's pretty much plainly obvious I think at this point, but if the US doesn't reign in the insanely out of control military bullshit (and that includes funding wars like in Ukraine and funding for apartheid countries like Israel) there's no way the US doesn't eventually (timelines are impossible on this shit) collapse under its own rotten infrastructure. The neoliberals since around the late 1970s have been absolutely fucking dead set on accelerating that rot. I dunno when it gives in, but in the meantime I expect a nonstop deluge of continued warmongering and projections of the rest of the world collapsing.
"Mass transit? Wtf is that? Here's a neat missile!"
"Healthcare? Huh? Here's another $100B for Ukraine."
"Public education funding? How about more police? Best we can do."
"Drug addicted, sick, and unhealthy population? Personal problem! Moral failing! What do you except from the government!?"
Hey! Don't tell me to ignore them! I know they were wrong about China's economy collapsing in 2022, and 2021, and 2020 and 2019 and 2018 and alright, maybe they've been wrong every single time they've predicted this in the last 40+ years, but this time, they're 100% right and China will collapse any day now!
If housing is made more affordable, the capital-brained can only interpret it as a housing bubble popping, and they can only interpret that as a bad thing—despite affordable housing being a good thing—because they can only think in terms of returns on capital investments. Articles on impending doom for China’s economy have been a constant drip for nearly a century, but right now it’s a fire hose of what I can safely assume to be bullshit & copium.
They're priming their audiences. They've been suggesting that a Chinese economic collapse would directly cause an American depression.
That's what they've decided to go with to deflect blame once the panic of another American depression hits. The bourgeoise knows the general audience is racist enough to accept those evil Chinese commies are causing their problems no matter how many backflips the logic has to do for it to connect. They're scared to accept blame, they're scared it won't work out like 2008 where they all got off scott free so they need to sow the seeds of their alibis before it happens.
I expect them to publish a bunch of totally fabricated stories about China collapsing and pulling America down with them once America sinks into a depression. Better to scapegoat an entire country and allow citizens to take out their rage on the Chinese ethnic minority living in America than to take an ounce of blame. Hmmm sounds familiar.
