On: China is eating the world

[riku_iki]

Sure, GDP is not totally accurate (not sure about extremely though), you feel free to bring better metric and we will check it.

[arp242 → riku_iki]

You can't capture a complex reality in a single number.

[riku_iki → arp242]

you can capture approximation/estimation, which is much better than ignoring reality completely.