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Re:China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation by bnegreve on Saturday January 11, 2014 @02:52PM (#7043525)
6 or 7 countries already surpasse the GDP per capita of the US [1], so that's not really a a landmark milestone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...

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Re:China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation by alexeisadeski3 on Saturday January 11, 2014 @04:29PM (#7043828)
Five or six postage stamp countries plus Norway, an extremely oil rich nation (in oil per capita terms).

The US remains the landmark.

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Re:China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation by bnegreve on Sunday January 12, 2014 @04:31AM (#7045622)
If you're suggesting that we take into account how well the wealth is distributed, then again, the US isn't a landmark. However it's hard to evaluate, maybe [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ...

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Re:China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation by alexeisadeski3 on Sunday January 12, 2014 @02:17PM (#7047050)
>If you're suggesting that we take into account how well the wealth is distributed

I'm not. Why on earth would you think I meant that?

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