[snowwrestler]

China is not likely to experience "demise" because it is a huge region of the world, an ethnicity, and a culture all at once.

However, its path toward growth can be interrupted and slowed. It has happened at least twice in the few hundred years: first by the late Qing dynasty, and then again in the Great Leap Forward.

That's what people are worried about with China: that the tension between its "communist" government and its growth-pacified population will not be resolved without serious interruption to its progress.

In the U.S. there are mechanisms to relieve such tension. George W Bush mismanaged Katrina and Iraq, and the Republicans got booted from office shortly thereafter. If the Chinese leadership starts to lose the populations' confidence, how do the people pick new leadership?

[Grishnakh]

"You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie!"

As for booting the Republicans, the American people have now happily elected the GOP into power in both houses of Congress, and they've sent a bill to the White House repealing ObamaCara/ACA. Of course, it was vetoed by Obama, but given that the GOP controls most state legislatures and governorships and Congress, I fully expect a Republican to win in the 2016 election, so we can look forward to more Bush-style mismanagement.