By 2040 China will dominate almost all global markets. Most business and government leaders are blind to China's gigantic future impact. China already has the world’s largest banking assets of $42 trillion, and China is the world’s largest economy when measured by Purchasing Power Parity, which takes into account how much the same basic items cost in each nation.

China is the world's largest manufacturer, the largest exporter, the fastest growing consumer market. China is the world leader in digital innovation, high-speed rail and green tech. China generates 40% of all global e-commerce transactions, and files more patents than any other nation. Mandarin is the most common first language spoken by 800 million web users, and China is the world’s largest e-commerce market with 40% of global share.  Chinese people will spend which $1.8 trillion online by 2022....

By then, almost all of them will be electric powered, and the majority driven entirely or assisted by AI / Artificial intelligence / robots. Inevitably, roads will be very congested, especially in city centres, many of which will ban private vehicles most or all of the time by 2030. Most new car owners will be in emerging markets over the next 50 years. Chinese people are driving 230 million cars, most than any other nation, 8% owned by 40,000 car rental companies. Private car ownership in China jumped from 1% to 21% from 2002 to 2019, with more than 24 million new cars now sold a year....

Article written in 2020, video forecasting these accounting trends made at a KPMG event in 2008 - core messages very similarTax rates will continue to converge globally in many sectors and industries as governments compete for global investment. Nations with higher corporate tax rates will see companies shift HQs, factories, offices, research and development. So governments will be forced to keep their own taxation and regulations in step with the global norm.Global corporations will continue to use all kinds of elaborate accounting mechanisms to avoid tax, moving profits from one nation to another, exploiting whatever differences remain, attracting public criticism and resentment in the process....

Sources of Survey Data Include: Online metrics, Church attendance statistics, National Census plus many large national surveys.  Results may surprise you.