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By your numbers, China's exports are roughly 50% higher than the US but not 5 and half times. But my comment was about trade with each other. I read this over a year ago and it struck me but I do not recall the original article.
Gosh, I guess that those "<SARC>" and "</SARC>" flags are just too damn subtle.
The original statement was that the Chinese economy was five times more reliant on exports than the US economy was.
That statement was ludicrous in light of the fact that the portion of the Chinese economy that relies on exports is 1.448 times as large as the portion of the US economy that does.
Of course, when you look at that number you can clearly see a "1" and a "4" and, <SARC>as evrewunknoz "1 + 4 = 5"</SARC> - right?