13/05/2023

The age of superpower parity

The meteoric rise of China’s economy is ending. Will it ever overtake America’s?


The meteoric rise is over

CHINA HAS this year liberated its economy from the lockdowns, quarantines and other strictures of its “zero-covid” regime. But it has not freed itself from longer-term worries about its growth prospects. Its population is shrinking. Its epic housing boom is over.