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pampango

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11. Exports to the US are 4% of China's economy and 18% of its total exports.

Reply to uawchild (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 12:01 PM

Oct 2015

The world does not revolve around the US. China's middle class would be growing even if we had enacted a Cuba-style embargo on China after Mao died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2012/march/tradoc_149251.pdf

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"China overtakes US, now has world's largest middle class" -- thanks to the off-shoring of jobs [View all] uawchild Oct 2015 OP

HRC : "Outsourcing will continue..." antigop Oct 2015 #1

There's a misconception here. Middle-class in China is not connected to chinese economy. DetlefK Oct 2015 #2

Do you know the difference between 300 million malaise Oct 2015 #7

India's is next. Talk about being third place . . . or is that third world? brush Oct 2015 #3

Sweet! Soon they'll start outsourcing jobs to us! Orrex Oct 2015 #4

Or we'll go over there flamingdem Oct 2015 #10

A meaningless statistic. Nitram Oct 2015 #5

Precisely n/t malaise Oct 2015 #8

I find our trade deficit more meaningful myself. n/t uawchild Oct 2015 #9

Well, thanks to having 4 times the population really whatthehey Oct 2015 #6

Exports to the US are 4% of China's economy and 18% of its total exports. pampango Oct 2015 #11

hmmm... uawchild Oct 2015 #13

Let's give credit where credit is due to the GOP and the Reagan and Third Way Dems it would not have YabaDabaNoDinoNo Oct 2015 #12

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