China economy overtaking U.S. is increasingly unlikely: ex-IMF official

NEW YORK -- The U.S. looks to maintain its strong growth while China confronts a slowdown, leaving the world's two largest economies on opposite trajectories as they try to shape the global order.

"The likelihood of the prediction that China's GDP will one day overtake that of the U.S. is declining," Eswar Prasad, a professor at Cornell University and a former International Monetary Fund official in charge of China, told Nikkei in a recent interview.