这类预测中国未来和评价中国人的所谓“兰德公司报告”频频在互联网出现，兰德公司已经否认曾发布这些文章。该公司的声明原文如下：

“Several online postings containing false information regarding RAND Corporation research have appeared on various websites and blogs produced in China. With titles such as "China will become the poorest country in the world in 2020" and "RAND Corporation's evaluation of Chinese people," the online postings contain extremely negative comments about the Chinese people, and attribute those to RAND. RAND has never published the comments or reports cited in the online postings. The online postings do not represent the views of RAND scholars. Portions of these online postings appear to be  misquote of  testimony by a RAND associate given in 2005. That testimony is available in full, in both English and Chinese, at: http://www.rand.org”

Source: http://www.rand.org/hot_topics/china/