“Peak China” refers to the hotly debated concept that China has reached the height of its economic power.
Michael Beckley, head of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, believes he coined the term in a 2018 article that argued China’s economy, the world’s second largest, would not necessarily overtake the U.S. economy, as many had long projected.
He said he had been inspired by “peak oil.”
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