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Having lived in Beijing for 3 years, I try to pay more attention to the country's "hidden" or at least somewhat non obvious debts.

The Chinese soil is dying or dead.

The population as a whole and the younger generations in particular are facing future health issues of cataclysmic proportions.

The pace at which the country moves is sure to leave dozen of millions of people in the dust. Those already left in the dust endure, because their living conditions are better than those of their parents. Yet their kids' might not be, and they will choose to endure or not (and vent in a way they think appropriate). That, added to the dearth of females, and the Confucianist view of a man's place in society are already proving explosive.

China has a lot of potential, but it also faces challenges of epic proportions. To me, the economic problems are more a symptom of the problem rather than the problem to worry about.