[Alberta's Child]

One of the big carmakers, GM I think, expects the Chinese auto market to be larger than ours by 2020.

That should come as no surprise, considering that China's population is about four times larger than ours.

Here's a bizarre statistic for you . . . there are more people in China who speak English as a second language than there are native English speakers in the United States!

[phil_will1]

"Here's a bizarre statistic for you . . . there are more people in China who speak English as a second language than there are native English speakers in the United States!"

Yes, China's size is on a scale that is hard for most of us to grasp. Here's another statistic. It is believed that China's actual population is around 1.5 billion, as opposed to the official government census of 1.3. That means that if China's margin for error in counting its population were a country all its own, it would be the 4th largest in the world, larger than the UK, France and Germany combined.