How many years before China is No. 1?

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CHRISISALL

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 2:24 AM

One cites incredible need, while the other cites incredible waste. The polar ends of this polarized country.

I count myself lucky that I'm only hungry when I forget to make my lunch.

And insurance companies are just the inevitable socialist/capitalist by-product of a hopelessly over-complicated and mis-managed legal system combined with a healthcare system that has the $ appetite of the economic dragon that it is!!!
*end of mini-rant*

Dragonslayer Chrisisall

RUE

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:21 AM

Thanks for your opinions.

I know being close to the holidays people are busy and all, but I have just completed a major project that's been draggin' on for 8 months and right at the moment I'm free, FREE, FREE !.

Wanders around the empty city. Hello ? Hello ? Is anybody there ?

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:38 AM

I wasn't going to comment because I don't see this as a major problem facing our nation. The real issue here is we just need to get society up and running again or this is nothing compared to the disaster we may face. Focusing too closely on what may be a symptom of a decayed society may lead to a solution which is not really best for society as a whole. There is no end of ways to get fed if you need food in this country. The food stampedes in india this week speak of a much worse problem, and the problem is even worse in africa. If america cannot get its act together, that could be us in just a couple decades. If this seems alarmist, bear this in mind. Russia went from being the wealthiest nation on earth to having 10 million people starve to death in the streets in just ten short years from 1910 to 1920.

RUE

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:58 PM

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The food stampedes in india this week speak of a much worse problem, and the problem is even worse in africa.

Oddly eonough, India has plenty of food. It produces more than enough for everybody and there are surpluses stacked in warehouses. If I remember rightly, the calculation went that if all the sacks of surplus (in India) were stacked on top of each other, they'd reach to the moon and back.

The problem there, like in the US, is distribution. There it is baldy based on caste and sex. Here, it is also based on caste, with our 'untouchables' being poor folk. (And yes I know, caste was outlawed in India. But caste still is the de facto determinant of who gets food and who doesn't.)

If you think there is always a way to get enough food in the US, then you have not spent much time without money. B/c, sure as the sun rises, even benefits to which you are clearly entitled sooner or later run out. Then you are out of luck.

Africa has severe problems with drought and AIDS. But even then, distribution is a major factor. War and corruption being two major kinks.

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

SIGNYM

Tuesday, August 17, 2021 12:02 AM

The ultimate relevant necropost!

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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, August 17, 2021 12:19 AM

China won't be number 1, not yet anyways... that's not to say they won't continue gaining and they are very good long term chess players, the USA would have to continue to screw things up for another 5 yrs.
I always had tipped them to become some sort of economic military global Superpower but I thought the USA should remain ahead, this was at a time it wasn't really popular to back the idea of a strong dragon as they were still almost running around in those old Maoist Communist suits and S.Korea and Japan were seen as the powers. I'm not really shocked by China's growth but kind of shocked at how rapidly the West is falling backwards, its not just biden or Trump lots and lots of ground was lost during the Obama and Bush-Jnr years.

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, August 17, 2021 12:49 AM

China will have to compete with India for the spot now. I'm sure they're way ahead, but in time. US will oof

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, August 17, 2021 10:58 AM

China can eat my balls.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, January 3, 2022 6:18 PM

maybe less than 10 the way things are going

SECOND

Monday, January 3, 2022 7:02 PM

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
maybe less than 10 the way things are going

China Is Now the World’s Largest Economy. We Shouldn’t Be Shocked.

China has now displaced the U.S. to become the largest economy in the world. Measured by the more refined yardstick that both the IMF and CIA now judge to be the single best metric for comparing national economies, the IMF Report shows that China’s economy is one-sixth larger than America’s ($24.2 trillion versus the U.S.’s $20.8 trillion). Why can't we admit reality? What does this mean?

This week (October 15, 2020), the IMF presented its 2020 World Economic Outlook providing an overview of the global economy and the challenges ahead. The most inconvenient fact in the Report is one Americans don’t want to hear—and even when they read it, refuse to accept: China has now displaced the U.S. to become the largest economy in the world. Measured by the more refined yardstick that both the IMF and CIA now judge to be the single best metric for comparing national economies, the IMF Report shows that China’s economy is one-sixth larger than America’s ($24.2 trillion versus the U.S.’s $20.8 trillion).

Despite this unambiguous statement from the two most authoritative sources, most of the mainstream press—with the exception of The Economist—continue reporting that the U.S. economy is No. 1. So, what’s going on?

While the yardstick most Americans are accustomed to still shows that the Chinese economy is one-third smaller than the U.S., when one recognizes the fact that $1 buys nearly twice as much in China than in the U.S., the Chinese economy today is one-sixth larger than the U.S. economy.

For the U.S. to meet the China challenge, Americans must wake up to the ugly fact: China has already passed us in the race to be the No. 1 economy in the world. Moreover, in 2020, China will be the only major economy that records positive growth: the only economy that will be bigger at the end of the year than it was when the year began. The consequences for American security are not difficult to predict. Diverging economic growth will embolden an ever more assertive geopolitical player on the world stage.

More at https://nationalinterest.org/feature/china-now-world%E2%80%99s-largest
-economy-we-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-shocked-170719

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