About: The Coming Collapse of China

The Coming Collapse of China is a book by Gordon G. Chang, published in 2001, in which he argued for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to be the root cause of many of the China's problems and would cause the country's collapse in the near future. His book also made specific forecasts on the year that the party would collapse since Chang insisted that it would occur by 2011. When 2011 was almost over, Chang admitted that his prediction was wrong but said it was off by only a year. On 29 December 2011, Chang asserted in the Foreign Policy magazine, "Instead of 2011, the mighty Communist Party of China will fall in 2012. Bet on it." Consequently he made the magazine's "10 worst predictions of the year" twice when his prediction proved wrong again.