Right there in the first paragraph (emphasis added): > The most important story of 2014 that most people ignored was the Chinese economy overtaking the US econ

Right there in the first paragraph (emphasis added): > The most important story of 2014 that most people ignored was the Chinese economy overtaking the US economy. (This is using the purchasing power parity metric, which incorporates differences in the price of goods, but the Chinese economy will overtake on other metrics soon enough.) "Other metrics" does not include GDP per capita. That seems to me something you might not want to overlook when comparing the US and China.