Will China Implode?

Tiananmen Square Protests 1989 Stories by Williams

Peter Navarro, National Interest: China Will Probably Implode

From politics to the economy to the environment, the end may be near.

In July of 2001, Gordon Chang predicted an inevitable meltdown of the Chinese Communist Party in his best-selling book The Coming Collapse of China. Since then, China’s economy has increased by more than eightfold, to surpass even the United States on a purchasing parity power basis. Oops?

In Chang’s defense, he could not have anticipated the colossal blunder of President Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress in paving China’s ruthlessly mercantilist way into the World Trade Organization just five months after his book was published. That mother of all unfair trade deals—a well-deserved target of both the Sanders and Trump presidential campaigns—kept China’s Great Walls of Protectionism largely intact. However, it also opened U.S. markets to a flood of illegally subsidized Chinese imports, and catalyzed the offshoring of millions of American manufacturing jobs.

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WNU Editor: I was in China in the mid to late 1980s .... and I saw first hand the conditions that led to the protests that culminated in the Tienanmen Square Massacre in June 1989. China is nowhere near that same environment .... life has improved for many Chinese, and as long as most of them believe that it will continue .... a Chinese implosion and subsequent mass protest will not occur. But .... there are problems in China, and if protectionist measures are employed by a President Trump and/or by other countries .... China will be facing an economic crisis. What will happen after that will be anyone's guess, but China's neighbours should be prepared for the worse.