It's not propaganda so much as not letting inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story. Lots of ways to looks at numbers. China has 3x the population of

It's not propaganda so much as not letting inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story. Lots of ways to looks at numbers. China has 3x the population of US, so should we divide the company count by 3? Does number of companies matter, or market cap? Or revenue? Or profit + salary? Does purchasing power parity affect the weighting? What about the effects of US alliances with Europe vs China's alliances? What about the fact that US companies are multinationals, not purely American? At best you can say that China is on the rise and is a force to be reckoned with. Can't say if it's more or less powerful than USA.