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Well damn.

Since a lot of y'all told me in one of my previous threads that you get your news from KYM, I'm here to tell you that it's HAPPENING!!! Basically, China now has the single largest economy in the world in terms of raw GDP. The gap is expected to continue to widen for the foreseeable future.

I, for one, welcome the Western world's new Chinese overlords.

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I don't see China #1 in the Democracy Chart.

You're not doing too good there either.

But who owns those capital?

Least China ain't #1.

Yeah, but China hasn't won any SUPER BOWLS, have they?

New Cold War/space race to Mars when?

Buick has sold more cars in China then the USA for years now. They sold 809,000 cars in China.

They may be first in GDP, but at least we're first in freedom!

*5th.

You shut up with your communist opinions.
(I knew sombody would reply to me that.)

He was number one.

Yes, because of course you can work out the "freedom value" with a few formulas- it's not like it's completely subjective, right guys?

If you're free and you know it clap your hands!

Nobody can compete with Scandinavia, though. That's just unfair.

Someone sounds a little butthurt that there country might not be the best at something.

While I agree it's subjective, it was mostly to just take the piss out of people who say that shit, because either they admit the most free country is subjective and they aren't actually right or if they go by "official lists" then they aren't right either.

Then why post it begin with if your just posting it to "piss out people who say that shit"? That doesn't sound very sportsmanlike at all, Spider.

I guess so. Over-patriotism annoys me though. Sorry.

Says the guy with Union Jack Spider-Man as his avatar.

That's patriotism, not over-patriotism. I'm not saying "LELELE MY COUNTRY HAS THE MOST THREEDOM GUIS.".

what about now

>in terms of raw GDP
That's not raw GDP. That's using the Purchasing Power Parity. For instance, here's the IMF's projection on GDP based on current prices:

There are numerous ways to calculate GDP. If you use PPP, China takes #1, but other methods still have the US leading handily.

Damn, you got me.

@xTSGx

Yeah, poor choice of words on my part. The point is that, accounting for all relevant factors, the Chinese economy is larger than the US's. I suppose that's what I was trying to get at.

LELELE! USA still #1 baby!

Dude, nobody in this thread has actually acted like that. Even the guy you originally responded to with the "ranking" was clearly joking. There are plenty of people like you're describing, but I don't think they're on this website.

The jokes are never funny though.