That actually kind of not surprises me. China has a huge export market to the USA and the last thing China wants a much-diminished ability to export to the USA, which could collapse the "Big Four" banks in China with horrible results. There's a lot of smart people among that 1.6 billion population and they're waiting around for a real economic disaster to happen.
The last sentence should have said "There's a lot of smart people among that 1.6 billion population and they're NOT waiting around for a real economic disaster to happen."