The first round of predicting China's collapse began in 1989 and can be called the "political collapse of China." After dramatic changes in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, many socialist countries fell in quick succession, and the entire Western hemisphere believed that China would be the next country to collapse. More @Wikipedia
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