[txnativegop]

well crap! I guess we’ll just have to get rid of the minimum wage and increase productivity and profit and retake the No. 1 spot.

[AlaskaErik]

One more feather in Obozo’s cap.

[Seruzawa]

Eh, per capita China is a joke. That they weren’t bigger until now says volumes about the disaster that is communism.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Thanks Obola !

[griswold3]

Yeah, like I believe any numbers coming out of a communist country.

[Steve_Seattle]

I think this was first reported back in October, but you didn’t hear anything about it in the MSM leading up to the election.

[minnesota_bound]

China has 1.3 billion people. We are 1 billion fewer. Most of the people in China are dirt poor. The wealth is very concentrated among the “communists”. Think democrat party members here.

[b4its2late]

A round of golf today and a party in the west wing tonight!

[tcrlaf]

We have been wrecking our own economy for 40 years, in the name of crony liberalism.

So, why would ANYONE surprised by this?

[precisionshootist]

Number one or number two, I'm not sure, but one thing I am sure about is that we are in far more serious trouble with China than we are being led to believe.

I watched a show a couple days ago that was just talking about the biggest, tallest, whatever. When it came to roads and bridges I was shocked to see the number of super high, super long bridges built by China in the last few years. They now have like five of the highest bridges in the world, all built recently. Structures like this can't be built by weak nations.

All while we are shutting down our power plants and renting rides into space from Russia.

The rise of China and the decline of America is being suppressed. It's far worse than we think.

[PilotDave]

America’s GDP is roughly double China’s. The article is garbage.

[Salvation]

Obama’s fault!

[StoneWall Brigade]

Thanks Zero!

[11th Commandment]

The is bull. The IMF uses output in “real” terms of goods and services, meaning what would be the purchasing power of China adjusted for higher prices of the US. There is some validity to this but there are numerous (I think six) adjustments to make to GDP to equalize output which the IMF ignores. The biggest one is artificial lending often found in tightly controlled countries. China pumps the vast majority of lending into failing and stale state businesses. The IMF does not adjust for this.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Thank you, Emperor Obama.

[Jack Hammer]

Thanks are due the Marxist Obama and his never-saw-a-business-restriction-we-couldn’t-love Democrat congress.

[Beowulf9]

I can believe it but at the same time there have been stories like this (China looks bad, Europe looks worse)...so how can this be? Btw, got this one off of Freerepublic, just down the ways from this China is now #1 thing. http://www.businessinsider.com/r-euro-zone-risks-return-to-contraction-china-outlook-smoggy-2014-12