China may now never take the US's crown as the largest economy

There are a bunch of magazines with the title "xxxxxInsider". In my experience, you should take their opinion pieces with a large grain of salt.

Personally, I just reverse the titles' meanings and I find the "information" they are trying to sell me is more accurate that way.

In this case: China may now never take the US's crown as the world's largest economy is the title. And in the first few sentences we see Forecasters expect its GDP to briefly pass the US's in the mid-2040s

What part of 'NEVER' don't the people at BusinessInsider understand?

Anyway, under PPP the more accurate way of comparing economies, China's economy passed the US's about ten years ago, back around 2014.