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China is a long way from posing the kind of challenge to American preponderance that the Kaiser’s Germany posed when it surpassed Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.
A few years earlier, as America rushed to lock up ever more of its population for ever-pettier offenses, the absolute size of its incarcerated population surpassed that of China - despite China's population being more than four times that of America.
The annual deficit almost certainly surpassed $1 trillion last year.
By the early 1920s the dollar had matched and, on some dimensions, surpassed sterling as the principal vehicle for international transactions.
China has already surpassed the US in manufacturing output, savings, trade, and even GDP when measured in terms of purchasing power parity.
And, whereas the British economy is displaying strong momentum, its GDP has only now surpassed the pre-crisis mark.
Based on recent growth rates in investment originating in non-OECD countries, such clean-energy financial flows may have surpassed those originating in the OECD in 2012.
Instead, we committed to a 35% target, and surpassed that by bringing inflation down to 30% in 2002.
The S&P 500 has surpassed pre-2008 levels, with companies’ shares trading at 18 times their earnings.
In the last three years, the US has surpassed Russia as India’s largest arms supplier.
The cost of this election cycle surpassed $2 billion – all to reproduce the status quo: the same president, and the same balance of power in the US Congress.
Then there were those who preferred not to fight any enemy at all, particularly the US, whose long-term war-making power, the government knew, far surpassed Japan’s own.
Japan has surpassed the US as a country of the middle class.
In the 1950s the Soviet Union was thought to have surpassed the United States; today, the Soviet Union no longer exists.
Last year, Japan's imports from China surpassed those from the US for the first time, while annual exports to China soared by 39.3%.
In 2011, the urban share of the Chinese population surpassed 50% for the first time, reaching 51.3%, compared to less than 20% in 1980.
Only two other parties – the Republican People’s Party (CHP) with 21% and the National Movement Party (MHP) with 14% – surpassed the 10% threshold for representation in parliament.
The Ambient Carbon-Capture ImperativePARIS – Last month, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time in roughly three million years.
Indeed, it was thanks to the euro – and the captive European market that goes with it – that Germany today is the world’s second-leading exporter (China surpassed it in 2009).
With similar offices, Canada and the United Kingdom have far surpassed the US in attracting private capital for such projects.
In 2007, China surpassed the US as the world’s leading CO2 emitter.
In 2007, the European Union surpassed the US as China’s largest export market.
In a new paper, “A Decade of Debt,” Carmen M. Reinhart and I show that general government debt in the United States, including federal, state, and local debt, has now surpassed the record 120% of GDP reached at the end of World War II.
Even in the absence of natural disasters, diarrhea is the number-two infectious killer of children under the age of five in developing countries (surpassed only by respiratory diseases), accounting for roughly two million deaths a year.
Last year, China surpassed Japan to become the second-largest consumer market in the world, after the US.
Growing Up in the EurozoneMILAN – A rapid and large increase of government debt has been a general phenomenon in the advanced countries since the 2007-09 crisis: for the first time, the average debt/GDP ratio for OECD countries has surpassed 100%.
Technology has far surpassed the verification and reporting methods employed by humanitarian organizations.
If successful – and, so far, China has almost always surpassed even its own high expectations – these adjustments may impose enormous strains on a global economic system that is already unbalanced by America’s huge fiscal and trade imbalances.
At the time, China was experiencing its fifth year of double-digit economic growth, which surpassed 14% that year.
Many of us are rightly concerned about whether our planet can support a human population that has surpassed seven billion.
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