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At the current rate, China won’t become the biggest economy in nominal GDP for a few more decades, and that assumes growth continue at the current rate China m
by audunw 5y ago
At the current rate, China won’t become the biggest economy in nominal GDP for a few more decades, and that assumes growth continue at the current rate
China might become number one in GDP (PPP) in a decade, but that also assumes continued growth at the current rate. China is overdue for a recession, as they need massive restructuring of the economy to shift away from an export driven economy and to pop its housing bubble (which does drive GDP growth now but not in a way that actually makes the country wealthier)
Why do you think Xi Jinping is doing such massive reforms right now? And clamping down harder on dissent and access to information and culture that’s not in line with CCPs agenda? He knows what’s coming, and to an extent he’s accelerating it with new lending restrictions and such. He knows it’s necessary.
- mrep 5y agoChina already has the largest GDP (PPP) in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
- dragonelite 5y agoIt was kind of a shocker too me when I discovered that in the PPP metric China has surpassed the US back in 2014. Also a thing i heard today was that Mercedes for examples sold 770k plus cars in China compared to only 220k and 260k in the US and Germany. And people still expect western companies to decouple.