[0] Continental Europe GDP $22.9 trillion vs. China $16.64 trillion (Wikipedia); this article appears to include the UK in “Europe”, so it isn’t just about the EU, which was ~= GDP to China before the UK left.
But I’m neither an economist nor politically trained, so if someone who is either wants to (politely) tell me I’m grossly oversimplifying, I’ll listen.
Because it includes 20+ countries with centuries of headstart, 4-5 of which milked half the globe as their colonies (including China)?
And China's epansion over the last 6000 years is way more spectacular than the short lived colonies of some european countries !
The EU isn't even a country yet while China had unified its warring kingdoms long ago...
China is not the thirld world country westerners like you think it is ! If we re behind the EU its by our own might, not their "headstart" :D
Headstart, smh, and what of the US, they have a headstart too? They barely started and are already telling us what to do - that says more abt us than them. Headstart...
Well, for most of those time, China was the most advanced economy on the planet. It dropped from the top spot around 1600 or so, and it took it several centuries to recover.
See, China didn't discover the Americas, plundered its gold and resources for centuries, and murdered millions in the process. Nor did it came to hold 2/3rds of the world as subjects in its colonies.
On the contrary, it was colonized itself, force to the whims of the British and so on.
Furthermore, it was itself coloni
I am starting to encounter your username repeatedly here and it’s always in the context of toxic comments of very little intellectual value.