[ninenot]

Google and CIA Factbook. You, too, can learn to use them!

OVERALL econ growth in China 2003 was 9.1%. INDUSTRIAL econ growth, China, 12.1% 2003.

China is now the 2nd-largest economy in the world, based on purchasing parity.

I'd say that it's significant.

[Toddsterpatriot]

CIA Factbook

Yeah, didn't the CIA think the USSR was going to surpass the U.S. economy?

So, second largest economy, I guess were still the largest?

All that with only 4 times our population.