[Analytics] Why are China and India fighting over an inhospitable strip of the Himalayas?
After over four decades of saber-rattling and minor scuffles, a border dispute between China and…
China
The People’s Republic of China is an economy of 1.3 billion people. When it joined APEC in 1991, it had a real GDP of USD 906 billion and a per capita GDP of USD 788. Today it is the second-largest economy in the world. By 2016, its real GDP has risen to USD 9.5 trillion, while its per capita GDP increased nine-fold to USD 6,800.
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[Analytics] Wider armed conflict between India and China unlikely
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