China may be approaching the end of its growth era.
Beijing has already set the lowest growth target since 1991, at 4.5 to 5 percent. China’s economy could stall entirely as a collapsing property market, rising debt, and a declining population converge.
Derek Scissors at the American Enterprise Institute estimates that growth will grind to a halt in the 2030s. The exact timing would be difficult to determine because of the regime’s lack of transparency about its data.
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“However, at some point, China will stop admitting that growth has slowed, claiming some reason for it to have stabilized, such as AI effects,” he told The Epoch Times, outlining indicators to watch. “In the years following, their economic statistics will become less and less consistent.”…