這類預測中國未來和評價中國人的所謂“蘭德公司報告”頻頻在互聯網出現，蘭德公司已經否認曾發布這些文章。該公司的聲明原文如下：

“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/