A look at China's emergence.
By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow May 2 at 3:26 PM One of the reasons that political observers have been a bit wary of former vice president Joe Biden’s strong position in Democratic 2020 primary polling is his history of making awkward comments. While he was serving as Barack Obama’s No. 2, this wasn’t really much of a problem. When he ran for president in 2008, though, it was.
As a percent of the entire world’s population, though, China’s population is declining, thanks to massive population growth in other countries such as India. Consider one metric: the traffic at the country’s ports. Twenty years ago, Chinese ports saw about 144 percent of American port traffic. Now? More than 415 percent. Chinese port traffic makes up an increasing percentage of all traffic in the world.
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