but they're not

shenzhen today is very similar to LA in terms of wealth

30 years ago it was a poor village

do you realize this trend?

No matter if they should have been doing better, since they're surpassing the US anyways.

How so?

with a 1.2 billion population

they're not the largest economy

it'll take a few decades

you used GNI to demonstrate the country isnt surpassing the US, when obviously the relevant indicators would have to be GDP PPP

to the conversation

Yes GDP PPP PER CAPITA = GNI PPP

per capita

You can check it for your selves

but that only shows how rich individuals are getting, which is a bit misleading since coastal areas and rural areas are night and day. the point is production and economic activity

Yes the average wealth of citizens

it isn't good if it is 14K

it doesn't matter about the "rural" or "costal"

@sɪᴅɪsɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴇ depends

it's not just rich individuals it's median income

... I've never understood how all these nations that fight with each other in these ways still accept plane loads of each other's "tourists" & whatnot? .. it's like if I accepted people into my house & all they wanted to do was piss & moan about my house & the way I do things, but they spend money or buy things from me so I tolerate them or something like that? 🤔

you are nitpicking wealth of citizens specifically, i already told you we're talking about economic activity

and how much the country *as a whole* is producing

Yes

thats not a big deal since their citizens are at third world standards

not individually, if you want to compare that you should probably do city by city

No you should do it by PER capita

@unit we don't strive to fight, we strive for an agreement

GDP PPP

having wealth in the cities isn't a big deal

since most of their citizens are doing bad

@unit well does every tourist that goes to china share the same opinion of trump?

you're not measuring the richest person you're measuring the overall average income

but that's irrelevant to the conversation dude

But what is your point

we were talking about how well the economy as a whole is doing, how much it's producing and how much revenew it's making. people in china still earn significantly less than the US on average OBVIOUSLY

Also tourism is good for the economy, why wouldn't they want that @unit

Yes but you're forgetting the basic economic system is put into place to help the citizens

it clearly isn't

but if you want to look at the whole economy

GDP wise