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Moreover, the size of China’s economy will surpass that of the US in about 15 years.
Today, humanity faces such a life-threatening problem: How are we to provide adequate nutrition and a decent quality of life to a global population that is set to surpass nine billion by 2050, without irreparably damaging our planetary life-support system?
So this is what a US debt default would look like: the private sector would collapse, unemployment would quickly surpass 20%, and, while the government would shrink, it would remain the employer of last resort.
By the end of this year, America’s debt-to-GDP ratio will have climbed to 87% from 73% in 2008, and, with next year’s deficit set to reach 11% of GDP, it is certain that the ratio will surpass 100% during 2011.
The US is acting under the implicit assumption that if China’s GDP were to surpass that of the US in nominal dollar terms, US economic prospects would be reduced by an amount equal to the margin of China’s gain.
And given that its economy is already larger than America’s in terms of purchasing power parity, the fear that it will surpass the US in terms of nominal GDP – which is not the same thing as wealth – seems rather beside the point.
China has a significantly larger population than the US does, so it stands to reason that it will surpass the US in nominal size at some point (unless it were trapped in a permanent state of poor productivity).
Indeed, by 2020, Chinese emissions could be more than triple those of Europe and even surpass those of the US and Europe combined.
Indeed, the investment bank Goldman Sachs expects the Chinese economy’s total size to surpass that of the United States by 2027.
This will certainly bring the Chinese closer to the US in terms of power resources, but China will not necessarily surpass the US as the most powerful country.
My own estimate is that among the range of possible futures, the more likely scenarios are those in which China gives the US a run for its money, but does not surpass it in overall power in the first half of this century.
China’s Growing Growth RisksBEIJING – If everything goes right for China, it will surpass the United States as the world’s largest economy, in current dollar terms (and more quickly in real terms), by 2021.
Most important, according to the authors, if current trends continue, Asia could soon surpass North America and Europe in global power.
This year, China will surpass the US in emissions of greenhouse gases.
They can do that without compromising educational values by taking into account, in selecting students, the evidence that students from disadvantaged schools surpass their peers from better schools who were awarded the same scores in their pre-university exams.
China is constrained by a natural balance of power in Asia in which Japan (the world’s third-largest economy) and India (about to surpass China in population) have no desire to be dominated by it.
Indeed, with the cost of connectivity falling sharply – China’s mobile users are expected to surpass PC users by 2013 – and, with urbanization and per capita incomes also rising sharply, it is not unreasonable to expect China’s Internet penetration rate to cross the 50% threshold by 2015.
Indeed, developing and emerging economies’ rapid “catch-up growth” suggests that their aggregate economic weight is about to surpass that of the advanced world.
But, as it struggles to overcome crisis, dynamic emerging economies may well surpass it.
Second, the Leave camp has an age problem: my own rough estimate suggests that, every year, Leave-voter deaths will exceed those of Remain voters by 150,000, while new Remain voters entering the electorate will surpass those of Leave by 150,000 (after adjusting for differential turnout between young and old).
Nevertheless, China’s economy is projected to surpass that of the US in size sometime in the next two decades.
Of course, if the Chinese government wished, China’s growth rate in 2013 could still surpass 8%.
And we are forecast to surpass 450 ppm by 2038.
India’s population of 1.2 billion is four times that of the US, and likely to surpass China’s by 2025.
But, first, they must anticipate the associated financing requirements, which will soon surpass the current capacities of governments and international donors, and take action now to activate new, reliable sources of financing.
We need to be active citizens, pushing our leaders not just to meet, but to surpass, the emission targets they have pledged to achieve.
But the consequences of a military adventure in Iran would far surpass those of the war in Iraq.
Public-sector debt will surpass €1.7 trillion, approaching 80% of GDP.
As a result, France is likely soon to surpass Sweden as the world’s highest public spender.
Indeed, the entente’s political utility is likely to surpass its military value.
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