While much of the lamestream media, especially from the Left, portrays communist China as economically unstoppable, there is another side. “China’s retail sector in steep decline, unemployment rising, and industrial productivity down. Hanging above it all was the guillotine blade of China’s jittery real estate market, which is threatened by imminent meltdowns from big property firms on one end, and a feisty “mortgage rebellion” by individual homeowners on the other.” The real estate market is in crisis, and then there are the banks and a jittery financial sector. It alone does not spell economic collapse, but it is another pressure upon the society. At times like this, governments often see war as a way of getting out of the mess. It involves exchanging one mess for a much bigger one, but which takes the people’s minds off of local miseries.