[Lake]

>>At those rates of growth China equals US output in 28 years.

Right.

>>At only 1.7 trillion GDP China takes 208 years to equal US output if the rates of growth stay constant. A big if.

My calculation says it will be 63 years.

[borghead]

The 1.7 trillion is far more probable, somewhere around the middle of the 21st century china will surpass the U.S.