Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Here is a rebuttal of views similar to and including the USA academic's recent article on "Coming Chinese Crackup" [See my blog post: US academic's rather shocking view of the current political and social situation in China ] by a professor in a Beijing university, Xie Tao, http://thediplomat.com/authors/xie-tao/ , "Why Do People Keep Predicting China's Collapse?", http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/why-do-people-keep-predicting-chinas-collapse/ . Some comments from me on the article: * Tao has certainly gone on the attack on Shambaugh! Hmm. Academics writing on politics perhaps have to face such articles attacking them and not just their views. But this seems to be a lesser version of what real politicians do and face. * About the author accepting that China has problems but then mentioning that USA too has serious problems and could be viewed as "terminally ill": Pessimistic view but does seem to have a lot of valid points. I think appalli

Here is a US academic's rather shocking view of the current political and social situation in China, "The Coming Chinese Crackup", http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-coming-chinese-crack-up-1425659198 . However, a recent comment from a Nate Smith, "Been predicted for years , I will only believe it when I see it actually happen .Probably the Tanks will roll instead .", seems to put the article in the right perspective. It would be very interesting to see a response to this article from a supporter of the Chinese govt. I hope and pray that the changes in China that the article mentions, are done in a peaceful and harmonious way so that there is no major disturbance to the Chinese people at large. Some comments from me on the article: * On the point about "badly broken" Chinese political system: Those are very strong words! * About Chinese economic elites being ready to migrate abroad and multimillion dollar USA-birth-tourism:  Well, I think a lot o