The Economist has crunched the numbers and found that, based on reasonable assumptions about these three variables, China could overtake America in the next decade.

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Vast fortunes will be made in China and India over the next decade.

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China will be key for Porsche in the next decade.

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China will continue to employ hundreds of millions of low-skilled workers over the next decade, but manufacturing companies in China will also utilize hundreds of millions of robots in the future.

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There are many who think that strengthening the value of China's currency won't mean American jobs lost to China in the past decade return to US shores - the jobs will simply go to the next low-cost country like Vietnam or India.

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China's exports are likely to grow more slowly over the next decade, as demand in rich economies remains subdued, but its market share will probably continue to creep up.

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Working toward a goal of increasing its nuclear power generation to 5% of its energy needs, from less than 2% currently, over the next decade, China has 20 reactors under construction and plans for an additional 120 in pipeline.

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If China was a source of global disinflation in the past decades, it will become a source of global inflation in the next decade.

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