A little perspective

[gaojun]

According to the BBC, the Chinese economy just surpassed the UK economy in size (as measured by GDP converted to dollars*), becoming the fourth largest national economy in the world, behind the US, Japan, and Germany. If I remember right from my international political economy class, that puts China's economy at just slightly greater in size than

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[shawnli]

Good comparison!

Didn't know about that, especially whenever you think of the population, everything is distorted.