There has been lots of speculation lately regarding China’s economic “decline” or potential economic “perils,” so much so that newspaper articles about the coming demise of China’s miracle economic growth over the previous decades continue to take (our) time away from other, perhaps, more important topics. This has also added to our time spent in trying to make sense of China’s involvement and support of the continued development of an expanded BRICS alternative to a U.S. “driven” global economy. The flurry of articles on China’s economic demise seems to have hit the Chinese Communist party hard, so hard that even ... (full story)