US gross domestic product rose 12.2 percent in the second quarter of this year from a year earlier, outpacing China's 7.9 percent gain.
The Wall Street Journal says that the disparity in response to the epidemic between the two countries gives the US economy the advantage in growth at the expense of its Chinese counterpart.
At first, China's tough response brought the country's growth back to a faster pace than the United States, which later faced the economic burden of the pandemic and largely avoided mandatory quarantines.
Although the US economy took longer to repair itself than the Chinese economy due to the coronavirus pandemic, the United States poured more resources into the recovery.
A massive vaccination campaign, massive fiscal stimulus, and near-zero interest rates have pushed the United States ahead in GDP growth relative to China.
The newspaper believes that China's strict response to the outbreak of the delta variable of the Corona virus again may affect the prospects for the two countries' economies in growth.
Many economists say that American supremacy should continue for at least the next few quarters, as this will be the first sustained period since at least 1990 in which the US economy has grown faster than China.
Moody's expects US GDP growth to exceed that of China for five consecutive quarters, starting in the second quarter of 2021.
Capital Economics and Oxford Economics see a similar trend, although they believe American supremacy will last only three-quarters.
The US economy is the largest in the world, despite China narrowing the gap with America since Beijing began opening its economy to the world in the seventies.
The world's largest economy sets business and consumer trends globally; It also has more resources to harness in technology and energy projects abroad.
Although expectations indicate the possibility of China outperforming and occupying the first place in the world in the next two decades, analysts believe that Beijing faces many challenges to outperform the economy of the United States.
Economists say Beijing faces major problems, including the authorities' crackdown on the private sector, sharp increases in government debt and an aging population.
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