AgentR wrote:China is also the only country that has prepared itself to survive in-tact, through the global hardships that are just beginning. So no, the fantasy of some uprising and implosion of mainland China is just that; a fantasy.
Implosion (or rather initial stages of implosion) will come not from uprisings but from collapse of vast infrastructure which is going to get obsolete due to global economic difficulties.
Only later uprisings and civil wars will follow.
And then, well... then they will face a dieoff.
For what purpose do you think China accumulated huge dollar reserves over the past decades? For a petty act of revenge? Generosity towards the US? Not at all. They saved them for the purpose of making a transition from an export market to an inward focussed market.
However Americans are spoiling these plans with reeving up printing press.
It is a sad truth, but Chinese have accumulated tons of worthless green toilet paper.
If they preserve 20% of current purchasing value of it, they will be very lucky indeed.