And the possibility of a China collapse scares almost everyone.
If such partial disclosures cause one of the best run foreign companies operating in China to collapse, consider what havoc they would wreak on other stocks.
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The earthquake earlier this week in Southwestern China caused the collapse of a middle school that trapped hundreds of students.
Countries as huge and complicated as China can underachieve or collapse under their own contradictions.
Gordon Chang, author of the 2001 book "The Coming Collapse of China, " charged that Pudong's glitz masked an unsustainable model.
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Perhaps the regulators saw the title and lumped me with writers like Gordon Chang, who has been predicting a collapse of China for more than a decade.
The 100th anniversary on October 10th of the uprising that caused the collapse of China's last imperial dynasty will be celebrated on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but not in collaboration.
Frictions will also emanate from trade negotiations India was blamed, along with China, for the collapse of the latest meeting of the Doha round of world trade talks in late July this year.
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Thanks to, among other things, the activities of the foreign trade lobby (which in the last year has worked harder than ever to persuade us that China was on the brink of collapse or at least was losing its mojo), China hardly figured in the 2012 presidential campaign.
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China has seen how a collapse in Hong Kong's property market fuelled anti-government sentiment that prompted hundreds of thousands to take to the streets two years ago.
For China, that comes second to making sure that North Korea does not collapse and unleash even more refugees into China than it has already done.
Mr. STEPHEN GREEN (Senior Economist, Standard Chartered Bank): If China itself causes the dollar to collapse, then the value of its reserves will also collapse.
After Kim's July 4th missile launch, Chinese leader Hu instructed his government's leading foreign policy-making body, the Leading Group on Foreign Affairs, to begin formulating a strategy to minimize the deleterious effects that a North Korean collapse might have upon China.
There will be no hard landing in China and the housing market will not collapse setting off a Lehman Brothers style tsunami of credit crashing bank failures.
China has no wish to watch the North collapse into the arms of the capitalist South.
By contrast, China drew the opposite political conclusion from the collapse of the Soviet Union: political reform in a Marxist-Leninist system imperils the party's survival.
In it he apparently laments the collapse of Soviet communism and warns that China will never move towards the "universal values of the West".
Whether North Korea can manage a successful transition depends not only on events inside the country, but also on China, without whose help the North would quickly collapse.
But, Lim reports, there's no way China will back any action that might lead to the collapse of the regime in Pyongyang.
Sceptics argue that much of this investment, especially in China, is in the export sector and so will collapse as sales to America weaken.
Currently on the brink of collapse after an embezzlement scandal, it once was China's best firm.
The protests in China were ruthlessly crushed, but they and the collapse of communism elsewhere triggered fierce debate among Chinese leaders about the direction of reform.
The other is of North Korean collapse, with millions of desperate refugees pouring into China and South Korea or even American troops on China's border.
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This would not only imperil China's banking system, but would result in a collapse of the yuan, exactly the opposite of what Mr Snow claims he seeks.
The regime, for all its defiance, may be weaker than any outsider knows and, if it were to collapse, it would serve ASEAN, India and China right if the new Burmese government punished their selfishness by cutting them out of rich deals to explore its natural resources.
For Mr Wen, Longbridge - which only six years ago was a symbol of British industrial failure following the collapse of Rover - shows the opportunities available to both China and the UK from deepening industrial ties.
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