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ZeEa5KPul

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I was going through some archived posts at armscontrolwonk.com when I came across this whopper:
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LMAO at that jackass Jeffrey Lewis. Here are some choice quotes:
There is so much wrong with this estimate, I don’t know where to start.
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The only thing wrong with it was that it was an underestimate.
The economic growth estimate
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assumes a more than $ 7 trillion Chinese economy
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That was completely wrong. The actual size of the Chinese economy in 2020 was more than double that.
Using Dr. Cooper’s estimate of the Chinese economy in 2020, China would be lucky to reach
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of a $4 trillion economy.
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If it's "lucky" to reach $4 trillion, what do you call exceeding $14 trillion?
 
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ZeEa5KPul said:
I was going through some archived posts at armscontrolwonk.com when I came across this whopper:
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LMAO at that jackass Jeffrey Lewis. Here are some choice quotes:

The only thing wrong with it was that it was an underestimate.

That was completely wrong. The actual size of the Chinese economy in 2020 was more than double that.

If it's "lucky" to reach $4 trillion, what do you call exceeding $14 trillion?
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this should put literally every single one of his estimates on China in severe doubt. Yet they're never held accountable. That's the real sickness - lack of accountability. I'm of course talking about the Ottomans and Qing. Bad, bad Turks and Manchus.
 
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