[SeekAndFind]

For perspective, China was (or used to be) the World's Number 1 economy LONG BEFORE President Grant was born.

What goes around comes around.

[blueunicorn6]

Democrats.

[RayChuang88]

Not hard to figure out given China has four times the population of the USA. And soon a middle class that may soon approach the size of the US population.

[Cronos]

Well. As per historical gdps, India had the worlds largest economy until the 1500s when it was surpassed by China

[Resolute Conservative]

When you spend the last 20 years basically giving away your technology all in the name of one happy world and at the same time gutting your industrial complex with off-shoring, taxes, and illegal immigration you reap what you sow.

[no-to-illegals]

Does this mean America is back in red or black?

[Vigilanteman]

Plus, considering that China has more than four times our population means that the economic size per capita is still way better here in the U.S.A. even with the millions of third worlders added to the mix.

[Soul of the South]

Today would be a good day to celebrate free trade with mercantilist nations and the deindustrialization of the United States. Are George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, CEO’s of the Wall Street banks, and the free traders in Congress toasting Chinese President Xi Jinping for the event they worked so hard to bring about?

[Timocrat]

So will China now take over as the largest donor to the UN as they have the largest GDP ?

[SoCal Pubbie]

This is the old deal about “purchasing-power parity” It’s not that China’s economy is really bigger than the U.S., it’s that they can buy that Starbucks coffee cheaper so their money counts for more.

Of course they have three times as many people too, but that’s not figured in either.

[Salvation]

Obama’s fault.

[ßuddaßudd]

Since aren’t numba 1 anymore, will they lessen our taxes and let the Chiney support the world¿