David Chance: China’s growth miracle is over and it is stuck in a middle-income trap

China's President Xi Jinping has staked his legitimacy and that of the communist party on creating a 'rich and powerful socialist country'. Photo: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images

David Chance

For decades the question has been when China would overtake America to become the world’s number one economy. Now the question being posed is, how quickly will China peak and then decline?