Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines

Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines

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Where does global growth go next?

Where does global growth go next?

We've all lived off Chinese growth for three decades and now that's doesn't cut it

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Jim and Sara Nuttle illustration from “America’s New Map”

World Bank, per WAPO, reports that we’re looking at the worst half-decade of global growth since the start of the Go-Go Nineties, when, of course, China was the go-go-er driving the global growth show.

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Some broad-framing of the last three decades:

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First, China’s growth drove global growth as capturing in China’s expanding share of global GDP.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270439/chinas-share-of-global-gross-domestic-product-gdp/

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