RE: China surpassed the USA
October 8, 2014 at 6:31 pm
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2014 at 6:38 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 8, 2014 at 5:49 pm)KUSA Wrote: The Chinese figured out that communism doesn't work so they resorted to capitalism. Now the USA is number 2 in the world economy.
finance.yahoo.com/news/china-just-overtook-us-worlds-090801574.html
Considering they have 4.5 times as many people as we do, and their people seem quite industrious and rather clever, I think the shocking thing is not that their economy is now finally bigger than ours, but that ours had somehow managed to remain bigger than theirs for this long.
(October 8, 2014 at 6:02 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: Alas, it is natural flow of time countries riset and fall.
United States has not fallen. Size of economy is not everything. There is also the sophistication, agility and efficiency of the economy, which the US still remains considerably ahead. It would likely still be several decades before they come close. There is also the trmemdous geographic advantage enjoyed by the US. The United states is not tightly surrounded by other powerful countries deeply interested in our downfall. China is. There is no feasible way for China to match America's trendous geographic advantage.
