中国经济例外论正受到已有压力 — — 即国内债务累积 — — 和新情况 — — 包括美国贸易壁垒、针对中国一带一路计划的地缘政治反弹以及（特别是美国的）货币条件紧缩所组成的完美风暴的威胁。
China’s economic exceptionalism is now being threatened by a perfect storm of existing stresses – namely, the domestic debt build-up – and new complications, including US trade barriers, the geopolitical pushback against China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and tightening monetary conditions, particularly in the United States.