1994: (UPI) China’s high-flying economy finally began to descend in 1994
1998: (The Economist) Red Alert: China’s economy entering a dangerous period of sluggish growth
1999: (Bloomberg) China: What’s Going Wrong.
2003: (New York Times Opinion) Banking crisis imperils China, Gordon Chang
2004: (The Economist) The great fall of China?
2004: (New York Times) China Anxiously Seeks a Soft Economic Landing
2006: (International Economy) Can China Achieve a Soft Landing?
2007: (TIME) Is China’s Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing?
2008: (Asia Pacific Journal) The Rising Risk of a Hard Landing in China, Nouriel Roubini
2009: (Fortune) China’s hard landing. China must find a way to recover.
2011: (Reuters) “Meaningful probability” of a China hard landing: Roubini.
2011: (Business Insider) A Chinese Hard Landing May Be Closer Than You Think
2012: (American Interest) Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing
2013: (Zero Hedge) A Hard Landing In China
2014: (CNBC) A hard landing in China.
2015: (Forbes) Congratulations, You Got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing.
2016: (The Economist) Hard landing looms for China
2016: (George Soros) China Hard Landing Is Practically Unavoidable
2017: (National Interest) Is China’s Economy Going To Crash?
2018: (The Guardian) A Chinese recession is inevitable - don’t think it won’t affect you
2019: (Bloomberg) China’s Lehman Moment Is Drawing Closer
2020: (Wall Street Journal Opinion) China is the real sick man of Asia

  • Someone with better knowledge than me could pull all articles on China in mainstream media and compare them with an emotion AI algorithm to see if the way the media has been talking about China has evolved in any way. I think we all realise it’s becoming more and more hostile, but quantifying it would be interesting because it provides hard data.