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		yhnbgty on June 9, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Economist: The World's Biggest Military Spende... China'a GDP is a bit of an estimate. For any country with a large internal market and a central government the GDP figure isn't very useful.

rfreytag on June 9, 2009 [–]

You must be thinking of GNP which has been supplanted by GDP >precisely< because it better reflects the product of a nation's internal and external trade.

I think the CIA factbook probably does not totally rely on the PRC's reported GDP (which I agree are likely suspect).

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