The problem is, ‘collapse of China’ articles have been their own genre for at least 32 years (since Tienanmen in 1989), but the collapse never seems to actually happen. I still remember the ‘ghost cities’ articles from 2008, which supposedly indicated an ‘upcoming’ collapse. It is 13 years since those came out. In other words, I’ll believe it when it actually happens. We’ve been given too many wrong predictions of ‘impending’ Chinese collapse for decades at this point.