[BiglyCommentary]

The official CHICOM GDP numbers are phonier than a 3 dollar bill.

[zeestephen]

I use the Chinese Purchase Parity GDP for USA comparisons, but that may be a bogus number, too.

One employment number may be useful...

China has consistently had about 5X times as many industrial workers as the USA.

Before Covid, the number was approximately China - 100 million - and USA - 18 million.

In spite of that massive manpower difference, USA industrial output value was only about 10% behind China in 2019.

Even when Japanese industry was allegedly taking over the world in the 1980s, USA industrial workers produced more value per capita than Japan did.