{"id":324,"date":"2005-05-04T18:53:23","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/05\/04\/so-will-china-collapse-or-not\/"},"modified":"2005-05-04T18:53:23","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T13:23:23","slug":"so-will-china-collapse-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200505\/so-will-china-collapse-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"So will China collapse or not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I say that within three years it will undergo a painful collapse.  I may be wrong, but the logic of the Pascal&#8217;s wager dictates that I should make a money bet on China collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>(The logic is as follows. If China does well or slows down without collapsing, then I will be just fine. But if China collapses, it will take the US down with it. As a cybercoolie, I will naturally be in trouble. So I might as well make some money out of the damn mess.)<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/messageboards\/messages\/69-18834.asp\">piece<\/a> examining the possible mechanism of such a collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say that within three years it will undergo a painful collapse. I may be wrong, but the logic of the Pascal&#8217;s wager dictates that I should make a money bet on China collapsing. (The logic is as follows. If China does well or slows down without collapsing, then I will be just fine. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}