if a huge country doesn't collapse in under ten years, then it'll never collapse!
and if it does collapse, you'll just redefine what you meant by "collapse" to begin with, right?
god, both people on either side of an issue are fucking retarded. the preppers kept being like
"omg buy guns, buy gold, buy canned food because october of this year is when SHTF!"
and when things merely got marginally more shitty, their goalposts move to
"holy shit guys get prepped NOW because by april of next year it's when things'll get REALLY bad!"
Nothing moves that fast. The predictions are laughably premature.
If China doesn't reform majorly, they WILL collapse. That's what a trajectory is; a predictable path towards a destination. Only by changing the trajectory can the destination change.
Much like people who inject with loads of vaccines and shave decades off their life from all the toxic adjuvants in that poison. The signs are there to those who have eyes to see, but predicting a precise date is beyond the abilities of any one man.
Seriously though, people need to take their predictions and multiple their timeline by like x5-10 and then we'll see a spike in accuracy.