Facts about China that will blow your mind

China’s economy grew 7 times as fast as America’s over the past decade (316% growth vs. 43%) China’s GDP per capita is the 91st-lowest in the world, below Bosnia & Herzegovina 85 percent of artificial Christmas trees are made in China. So are 80 percent of toys China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined Chinese consume 50,000 cigarettes every second America’s fastest “high speed” train goes less than half as fast as the new train between Shanghai and Beijing (150 mph vs 302 mph) China’s enormous Gobi Desert is the size of Peru and expanding 1,400 square miles per year due to water source depletion, over-foresting, and over-grazing By 2025, China will build enough skyscrapers to fill TEN New York-sized cities There are already more Christians in China than Italy China executes three times as many people as the rest of the world COMBINED… and uses mobile execution vans for efficiency When you buy Chinese stocks, you are basically financing the Chinese government. Eight of Shanghai’s top ten stocks are government owned Chinese GDP could overtake the U.S. in less than 15 years The Target Range Of China’s “Aircraft Carrier Killer” Missile