Don't get carried away with GDP
By RAYMOND ZHOU | China Daily | Updated: 2007-08-04 07:45
China's economy will soon overtake Germany's, and by 2040 it will trump the US and become the world's number one.
That sounds like good news to me, but the euphoria over the prediction is nothing but unsettling.
The forecast is a slight variation of the ambitious scheme of almost half a century ago, namely, "overtaking Great Britain and the US".
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