China has no reason to catch up to any country in car ownership; China doesn't want to be a larger Korea. The traffic is already hell.
Interesting, SK has higher population density than China, and three times car ownership.
China car ownership rate ( per capita) is very small, so if there is high car concentration in same places then it more likely showing the wealth concentration into a small part of population in a small part of the country.
Exponential growth in international trade doesn't mean it was important yet or that the economy is similar to today. A calf grows very quickly but it is worlds different from a champion bull. You cannot even understand that the economy of over a century ago is different than the one today so of course you cannot analyze any economics intelligently.
The only word of significance in your whole paragraph is the first word: "if." I stopped reading when I saw 100 years LOL. You are imagining a scenario completely divorced from fact.
Actually the world trade in 1930 was somewhere between 50-100% of the 2008 level ( since that the world trade volume falling).
This is the range of the different data available online.
Think about that the Europeans/USA managed to grow exponentially in the 19th-20th century , just check China experience from that time.
At 1800 it was as strong as Europe, at 1900 as weak as Bangladesh today.
The countries who just copied found themselves with outdated industry, as the frontier moved fast to new technologies,. suggest to check the advancement of radio communication/radar/broadcasting .
And there is high chance for the China is making the manufacturing plants for the Alexanderson alternator of this time. (google is your friend )
And you wrote it with straight face, or you laugh during typing ? : DDDHas nothing to do with China.
So, China hasn't copied everything that it managed in the past century from the wast : DDDDD
And I presume in the forbidden palace there is still an emperor : DDDD
Check the number of countries that escaped the middle income trap . 80% even gives lot more credit to china than the historical experience : )Please show all mathematical calculations for 80%. Would love to see how you pulled that number out of your ass.
Everybody can laugh at them except you.
The data is saying the same thing with the same numbers: Chinese debt is comfortably below levels of her peers. It doesn't matter how the authors spin it; just look at the numbers. I can't count the number of times I've read, "Japanese economy roars to growth in the first quarter, touching 0.9%, astounding economists" and "Chinese economy sluggish and running out of steam with a mere 6.9% last quarter."
Math doesn't support you.
USA example has higher consumer debt per gdp %, but the household income is way higher than the Chinese level, so compared to income it is even lower than the Chinese.
Not to mention that the USA households has magnitude higher assets. Means in a crisis the USA consumption doesn't fall, but the Chinese will mop the floor.
Read after , many countless example in the history .