The Coming Collapse of China is a book by Gordon G. Chang, published in 2001, in which he argues that the Communist Party of China is the root cause of many of the People's Republic of China's problems and will cause its collapse in the near future.[1] He claimed that the hidden nonperforming loans of the "Big Four" Chinese State banks would likely bring down China's financial system and its communist government in 2006, 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2017. As of 2012, many of have argued that the collapse of China has begun, and the nation's economy continues to deteriorate year on year.