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Regardless of what you think of China, you can't deny its competence and growing influence. This simple chart from Google says it all: https://i.imgur.com/T88S
by xux 9y ago
Regardless of what you think of China, you can't deny its competence and growing influence. This simple chart from Google says it all:
https://i.imgur.com/T88SqnA.png https://i.imgur.com/T88SqnA.png
- brianwawok 9y agoLike all stats, it is easy to cherry pick. I find this graph is a better representation of the current state of the world https://imgur.com/a/oyPzT https://imgur.com/a/oyPzT Puts things in perspective I think a bit better
- xux 9y agoWe're talking about a country's influence, and per cap stats are completely unrelated to the total sum of influence Stats like the one you posted do offer some psychological relief though
- adventured 9y agoI prefer the chart of Japan's GDP. Didn't you hear? They conquered the world, their influence was undeniable. Their competence was feared across the globe. By 1988 Japan had surpassed the US in GDP per capita. The US is now ~53% ahead. That's no discredit to Japan, they're a very advanced industrial nation. The US simply happens to be the greatest economic train in history, one that has rarely stopped expanding in the last two centuries. Maybe China will manage a century of mostly unbroken growth. We'll see what they do now that the easy growth - filling in their vast economic slack and correcting particularly extreme inefficiencies - has long since ended (which is why they took on tens of trillions in debt post 2007).