Economist Justin Yifu Lin has suggested that “China still has advantages and achieving over 5% economic growth is entirely possible,” a statement that calls for interpretation. What other growth potential can be tapped into?

Beyond 5%: China’s Potential and a Vision for Global Growth

Such an assessment grossly underestimates the possibilities, predicated on the absence of unforeseen or extraordinary factors.

Lin does not factor in scenarios such as “China achieving an indisputable position of international leadership.” Imagine a world where China reshapes the global order, ushering in an era of explosive human progress. As the spearhead of this global surge, China, assuming the role of the world’s new capital, would sweep up the planet’s talent, capital, and technological resources. The economic growth rate in such a scenario could mirror that of post-World War II America.

This isn’t a linear event; it transcends incremental growth measured in mere percentage points.

Picture a world where threats of war have been eradicated, where developing nations receive abundant, sincere investment and development for the first time, where global hunger, poverty, and disease are comprehensively vanquished. Billions more could receive modern healthcare and education. Humanity could focus on space exploration without distraction, maximizing engineering and technological potential. Modern advances would no longer be weapons monopolized by a select few nations but would serve all of humanity. Global travel routes would be unobstructed, markets open, and resources allocated without interference.

Unapologetically speaking, the Earth’s population could double again. With today’s technology, if we fully harness our potential, the world could easily support this growth.

Forget single-digit percentages. It’s only with a Western-dominated global agenda, insatiable in its greed, that we talk about such minimal increases. This isn’t due to human incapacity but rather the result of incompetent and corrupt global leadership engorging themselves at the expense of the many.

With technologies like 5G, high-speed rail, genetic engineering, and AI already developed, it’s disgraceful that billions still live in poverty, entire nations lack basic infrastructure, and people go without clean water or electricity. Yet we’re meekly hoping for a “2% annual increase?” Isn’t this situation distorted, ridiculous, and shameful?

The primary mission for humankind should be to overthrow the incompetent and avaricious rule of Western imperialism spearheaded by the United States.

Once this is accomplished, the whole world, including the current Western bloc and both China and America, could anticipate growth rates of 8-10% over the next twenty years.

In this ensuing deluge of productivity, with China at the helm, we should be discussing annual growth rates of 10-15%, starting with a decade as the immediate benchmark. What good is 5% or 8%? These figures are child’s play. With a 15% surge over ten years, we might just about see comprehensive rail infrastructure in Africa and South America, begin to tackle global warming effectively, halt the trend of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, and kick-start lunar and Martian colonization.

This is only a warm-up, the prelude. Incompetent governance that leaves populations starving and desperate has no place here—it’s time to step aside and let progress flourish.