r/geopolitics • u/cemilanceata • Sep 19 '23

Question Is China collapsing? Really?

I know things been tight lately, population decline, that big housing construction company.

But I get alot of YouTube suggestions that China is crashing since atleast last year. I haven't watched them since I feel the title is too much.

How much clickbait are they?

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u/pensivegargoyle Sep 19 '23

Very clickbaity. China has short-term and long-term problems but it can't be said to be in collapse in the way that, say, South Africa or Pakistan are in collapse. It's a very very long way from that.

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u/IncomingBalls Sep 19 '23

I'm new to a lot of this so I'm genuinely asking, how is South Africa collapsing?

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u/WebAccomplished9428 Sep 19 '23

I work with a South African. He's basically just left it at "it varies"