The thing that I find frustrating is how people just keep falling for the narrative. We literally have decades of these predictions of China collapsing, then a new collapse theory comes out, and everybody just gobbles it up uncritically. It's like people have the memory of a goldfish. If the past dozen predictions were wrong, maybe it's time to start developing a bit of skepticism, and maybe start wondering why the media is so consistently wrong on the subject. I suspect the reality of the whole thing is that most people were successfully brainwashed into hating China out of principle, and then when they read these stories they're just seeing what they want to see, and hence no further investigation is needed.