Bryan Brulotte: China’s economic and demographic crunch has massive implications for Canada

People walk on a footbridge with a screen displaying the treasury bond futures index, in Shanghai on June 1. PHOTO BY HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP Article content Much has been written about China’s rise. Far less attention has been paid to a more important question: whether China’s economic model can sustain it. Article content For more than three decades, China achieved one of the most remarkable economic expansions in modern history, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty and transforming itself into the manufacturing centre of the world. Yet beneath that success lies a growing structural weakne…