Shrinking Planet Statistic of the Day: The Rise of China

Amazing bit of not-so-trivial trivia: “China today exports in a single day more than it exported in all of 1978.” Source: Fareed Zakaria’s new book, The Post-American World, as quoted in Sunday’s New York Times.

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