NYU Professor Sees China Follow Japan’s Path of Stagnation

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Enda Curran, Goldman Partner Who Called Japan's Demise Sees Similarities With China. Bloomberg, Mar 2, 2015.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... sage-of-japan-demis

Note:
(a) Roy C Smith, Kenneth Langone Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance. Stern School of Business, New York University, undated.
www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/static/cv/cv_rsmith_20110722.pdf

(b) “Asiaphoria’s End”
(i) -phoria (noun combining form): "nearing, state, tendency <euphoria> <heterophoria>"
www.merriam-webster.com/medical/phoria
(ii) Judging from the context, “Asiaphoria” seems to mean euphoria about Asia--rather than the definition immediately above.

(c) Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd  佳兆业集团
(d) “his October 1990 predictions on Japan proved prescient * * * In a column in the New York Times”

Roy C Smith, Japan, Land of the Setting Sun. New York Times, Oct 21, 1990
is no longer available in the Web, including the Nytimes.com.

(e) “But I do think they could have an economic smash-down"
(i) smackdown (n): “informal, chiefly US
1: a bitter contest or confrontation <the age-old man versus Nature smackdown>
2: decisive or humiliating defeat or setback"
www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/de ... n_english/smackdown

Definition 2 fits the bill.
(ii) For its etymology, see
smackdown (n; Derived from SmackDown [qv], a name used by World Wrestling Entertainment to identify certain of its wrestling matches, formed from the combination of smack and down):
“a fight; a beating, a physical or emotional confrontation"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smackdown

(g) For the same Bloomberg report, Google search returns a title “China Seen Becoming the Economic Superpower That Wasn't.”