So summarizing the arguments there, China's economy rising is actually fake, and it isn't rising, but the rising is unsustainable, and that's because there's a growing middle class that's going to demand change, although they don't really have a middle class, and it doesn't spend money on consumer goods, but it will, which will undo the CCP who are corrupt and do not enjoy popular support.
Oh no! They have somehow combined all of the contradictory arguments Gordan Chang has made over 20 years into one super take. The resulting temporal and logical paradox will surely destroy the planet.
So summarizing the arguments there, China's economy rising is actually fake, and it isn't rising, but the rising is unsustainable, and that's because there's a growing middle class that's going to demand change, although they don't really have a middle class, and it doesn't spend money on consumer goods, but it will, which will undo the CCP who are corrupt and do not enjoy popular support.
Oh no! They have somehow combined all of the contradictory arguments Gordan Chang has made over 20 years into one super take. The resulting temporal and logical paradox will surely destroy the planet.
Literally just invert all the bullshit in that paragraph and you get the actual material conditions in the prc lmao