Wednesday, December 4, 2024

China’s 40-Year Boom Is Over. What Comes Next?

Posted By Peter Coyne | 2023-08-22 08:57:07

The 40-year boom of China is over now that the country is drowning in debt and running out of things to build.

  • China’s catch-up model sparked an extraordinary period of growth that lifted China out of poverty and turned it into a global giant. Now the model is broken.
  • Economists now believe China is entering an era of much slower growth, made worse by unfavorable demographics and a widening divide with the U.S. and its allies, which is jeopardizing foreign investment and trade.
  • The International Monetary Fund puts China’s GDP growth at below 4% in the coming years, less than half of its tally for most of the past four decades.

Click here to read what comes next for China.