Economic momentum matters. China weakened substantially in 2H2021 and carrying that over to 2022 and beyond, that means China’s Y/Y growth rates will never again peak above 3% and it will never surpass the United States, esp. with the impending financial crisis and debt overhang, the demographic crisis, the energy crisis, the environmental crisis, among others.
Nah, it will rebound, given that the US, and everyone else's manufacturing has deteriorated further, increasing addiction and dependency on China for the most basic of needs. For example, the supply of plastic bottles to put food in.
The fact that China is willing to put brakes in its economy shows that it already has basically recovered, achieving its primary goal, and moving on to the next goals, such as adjusting the economy and achieving greater social equality. The US alone lost over 5 million people from its voluntary labor force alone in August. That is a staggering number. There are shortages everywhere from fast foods to groceries to supermarket chains, and stores cannot get their inventory. The US alone is estimated to need over 70,000 additional truck drivers, whose average age now in the US is at 55 years of age.
In due, China's economy has already long past the US sometime ago in the real world and all things that really counts, like a GDP that is actually based on making things, not because your GDP is 70% consumer consumption. Its not as much as China overtaking the US, but the US is falling down while China is climbing up.