China: has the moment arrived?

It has been obvious for years that the glory days of high-speed economic growth were over in China. While the future hasn’t exactly been canceled, it’s just a lot less attractive than it seemed 10 or 20 years ago.

President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping speaks at a UN Office in Geneva on Jan. 18, 2017. The gradual decline of China's economy is party hidden by deliberate obfuscation by the Chinese authorities, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of the UN/Jean-Marc Ferré

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 6, 2023

For several years now, I have had a file on my computer named ‘China—has the moment arrived?’ But I think I missed the moment—or rather I forgot that these things aren’t a moment, they’re a process.

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