It was a combination of Reagan and Chernobyl that sunk the old USSR... What are the uber large events that could topple China? And are we really ready for chaos on the level that could bring?
“It was a combination of Reagan and Chernobyl that sunk the old USSR.”
Some have argued that it was the collapse in oil prices, that drained the hard currency finances, which had kept their sham economy operating. The Soviet Union got the great bulk of its foreign (that is to say, real) currency from one source - oil/gas exports.
China gets its necessary foreign exchange, from exporting manufactured goods.
Perhaps if the foreign exchange needed for essential imports into China of oil, food and raw materials would suddenly dry up from the loss of their export of manufactured goods; then their sham economy might experience a harsh re-valuation as well. Maybe a debt crisis, banking crisis, stock and real estate market crashes and a currency collapse - which could wipe out a huge chunk of the net worth for their population.