China's Growth Slows To 7.6 Percent

China is growing at a rate more than 7 %, Russia at a rate of 4,5 % - whereas the US is stagnating and a number of EU economies (Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal etc) are shrinking. And it is just logical that in this situation the RFE/RL finds nothing better than publishing "articles" on how the "Chinese economic growth is slowing" :-).
I mean, really, that's probably how all the previous civilizations collapsed: people who lived there were probably just as unable to FACE THE REALITY OF THEIR LOOMING DISAPPEARANCE - which would be the sine qua non precondition for trying to somehow correct their own mistakes and thus improve their own situation, as the RFE/RL is just genetically unable to put their finger on the REAL PROBLEMS - those of their own rotten, declining and disappearing societies.
P.S. I wonder, what was the "fresh news" in Constantinople in 1452 - one year before the city was taken over by the Ottoman army? Probably the news was that "the Ottoman empire is in a process of decline, their economic growth slowed to 7,6 %".