The Economist has been predicting economic crises in China for decades, none of them have arrived

The Economist on its way to Proving Lenin He Was right everytime they make a dumb Article

Yeah, I know they were wrong the last 187 times about China, but this time they're totally right and China will collapse any day now!

Though this isn't actually about China, not really. This isn't an analysis, it's soothing balm for liberals. It's telling them "the enemy" isn't to be feared because they will destroy themselves through their lack of whiteness strange oriental ways incompetence and lack of "civility."

They constantly put out articles like this to tell the people that no matter how bad things get in the west, and no matter how good things seem to be getting in China, that's all just theater and China is automatically worse by default, regardless of what evidence, statistics or reality say.

CHINA'S COVID FAILURE

which country has over a million COVID deaths again?

Also notice the consistent use of racist tropes.

All this propaganda layed out like that makes them look... weird, and sad, like a jealous ex that's obsessed with you and is like, hate-stalking you, but for a country.

Look, look! The line's gonna go down! Well okay, but it's gonna stop going up! Well okay, but it'll go up slower! Well okay, but...

Just-just one more predictions guys for real this time i swear i listen to Gordon Chang!!!!!!!

The one with the pandas looks like something one of their editors came up with in a drug-induced haze.

Funny how it seems like China is always on the verge of going kersplode but when the US economy crashes every half decade or so it's once in a lifetime.

I can't believe they didn't go for

Peak-ing Duck

"the London Economist, the European organ of the aristocracy of finance, described most strikingly the attitude of this class.” - Karl Marx

"The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires." - Vladimir Lenin

Having both Marx and Lenin speak out against a publication shows how this rag has been consistently on the wrong side of any struggle for the past two centuries. Their modern flashy r/designporn-bait cover designs and tidy site UI hides the sociopathy of their publication history.

For starters, the modern day sinophobia of the Economist is no surprise. They're the original China haters, and I mean that with zero exaggeration. They've been calling for war and imperialism against China for two centuries now. They lobbied in the UK for the Second Opium War using sociopathic mercantilist justifications:

"We may regret war … but we cannot deny that great advantages have followed in its wake"

It's an unsurprising stance when their founder literally earned his fortune from the forced opium trade imposed against China following the First Opium War.

The British capital-centric profit driven agenda they've followed puts them even on the wrong side of a "liberal" perspective of history. They've historically opposed the UK abolitionist movement, protesting that "the boycott they proposed of all goods made using slave labour would hurt British consumers and punish slaves."

They were the only British publication to support the Confederacy, arguing that:

"It is in the independence of the South, and not in her defeat, that we can alone look with confidence for the early amelioration and the ultimate extinction of the slavery we abhor."

In a mask-off moment, they said that the slavery issue was secondary compared to the lucratively low cotton tariffs the Confederacy could offer, which made Marx himself ridicule the rag when he wrote for the New York Daily Tribune, saying that the Economist was finally: ‘honest enough to confess at last that with it and its followers sympathy (for American emancipation) is a mere question of tariff’

Their chief editor at the time, the Confederacy apologist Bagehot, still has a "cutesy" little column named after him to this day.

Showing that they've learnt nothing in the centuries since, in a 2014 book review on a book about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, they unironically complained without a shred of self-awareness that:

"Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains. This is not history; it is advocacy."

For more further reading, the Citations Needed podcast had an episode on "The Refined Sociopathy of The Economist." https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-98-the-refined-sociopathy-of-the-economist-4966767e1688

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

Any day now...

this doesn't mean that china has no economic issues at all. real estate, for example, must be properly managed without wiping out everyone's investments.

What do pandas have to do with China's economy?