In 2016, 544,500 Chinese left home to study abroad, according to China's Ministry of Education. Along with them, Chinese images, cash flows and much-loved apps like WeChat also go abroad.
In 2015, Chinese competitor Zeng Zhengchao won the nation's first gold medal in the welding competition during the WorldSkills competition in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In 2014, Yves and his parents moved to Beijing. The then-10th-grade student managed to adapt to his new lifestyle in China and fine-tuned the balance of school and race.
Ignatius' resentment towards Asians went beyond Orange County, stretching northward. "If you thought you could get away from them for a hot second and go on vacation to Yosemite, think again. They came in huge buses and stood in front of each waterfall to give the peace sign in their selfies."
Images posted on social media showed people escaping rising floodwaters by climbing onto their rooftops. "We have no idea how many people are on the roofs, on the terraces of the houses. It's an incalculable number, I can't say how many people are waiting to be rescued," the head of the Fire Department, Manuel Zelaya, told local media.
In 2010, China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest economy, and in 2014 it surpassed the United States as the world's largest economy, if measured by purchasing power parity (known as PPP), according to the International Monetary Fund. In 2017, China's economy was 2.5 times bigger than that of Japan.
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Imports from China stood at 18.2 million tires last year, sharply down from 56.7 million tires in 2014, due to higher taxes on such imports resulting from anti-dumping and anti-subsidy cases.
In 1895, the richest countries in terms of GDP per capita were, in order, Argentina, the US, Belgium, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. Counterproductive redistributionist policies implemented by a series of Argentine governments in the twentieth century caused a fall from first place to sixty-sixth today, according to World Bank data.
In 1930, the US Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act raised tariffs by nearly 60 percent and in the two following years, US exports dropped nearly two-thirds because related countries resorted to similar protectionist measures. As a result, US export markets dried up, domestic industries slowed down, and unemployment rate rose to 25 percent in 1933.
In 2016, China's two major markets of leather exports, the United States and the European Union, showed a 15 percent and 7.2 percent decline respectively.