China has experienced a meteoric rise over the past half-century with many projecting it

will overtake the United States as the most influential global power in the coming decades.

But some experts say its foundations are crumbling, and a China collapse is more likely.

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For this episode of Morning Wire, we speak to columnist and author of the coming collapse

of China, Gordon Chang, about China's growing challenges and how a Chinese collapse could

affect global markets.

Gordon, thanks so much for coming on.

Thank you so much, Georgia.

Now, there's a lot of evidence showing that the Chinese economy may be contracting, but

you've actually said that it's in free fall.

What makes you say that?

The property sector is the heart of the Chinese economy.

To count for somewhere between 25 to 30 percent of gross domestic product, we know that the

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