[Age of Reason]

the rug can be pulled right out from China if their cheap labor becomes too pricey

I recently heard that the number of just the unemployed Chinese workers surpasses all the factory workers in the world outside of China.

[phil_will1]

"I recently heard that the number of just the unemployed Chinese workers surpasses all the factory workers in the world outside of China."

I haven't heard that specific statistic, but the scale of China's population is staggering. For example, it is believed that China's actual population is about 1.5 billion, well above the official government census of 1.3 billion. Put another way, if China's margin of error in counting its population were a country of its own, it would be about the 4th largest in the world.

The USA has 9 cities with populations above 1 million. Eastern and western Europe have about 35. China has between 100 and 160.