The US is technically the largest economy. Why you people want to deny reality is beyond me. It is a shitty economy of service and debt but it is still the largest one. How is that NAFO? Is the next thing you going to say the US technically doesn’t have the strong Navy? Is the US dollar still not the global reserve? It is ridiculous you people are getting triggered like liberal snowflakes over inconsequential statistics.
An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services.
In which one of these 3 areas China is not the multiples of the US 'technically'?
Consumption share, production share, and trade share, across nearly all categories globally?
If you want we can run numbers, but that would just clutter the thread.
Even the nominal GDP number you probably base your assumption on was logically created to measure only the "PRODUCT" (tangible economic output), not fictional bullshit,
When first conceptualized, particularly in the 1930s by economist Simon Kuznets, it was meant as a way to assess things like manufacturing, agriculture, and infrastructure (think about China's lead in all 3).
Which the US later revised multiple times to fit their agenda and rotting economy, and forced other nations to adopt via international orgs.
However, China largely never adopted those crooked methods in its reporting.
So, by calling the US the "first economy", you regurgitate CIA brainwashing.
For example, Putin and Russia officially stopped using that metric altogether.
Putin said that by using that bullshit nominal indicator all those years - their enemies thought that they were weaker than they truly were and that the war showed so they attacked them.
From then on, since a few years ago, Russia and its media stopped mentioning it.
