Think about it this way:
Really?
China produces and consumes a
LOT more physical items like cars and steel.
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So think about this in real terms. Gross domestic produce is what a country produces.
If you produce things that doesn't have a lot of tangible input like steel, wood or concrete then what are you really producing?
Songs? Financial "instruments" like mortage derivatives? Sexy videos?
You can assign very high value to these intangible and they might be worth it in the US but what real power do they show against the real world?
Is a $100M worth of Wall Street and Hollywood ethereal "property" in the US greater power than a $50M steel container ship made in China?
Seriously, how can the US "produce" more than China when it uses 10 times less steel? It produce dreams and schemes not the real world, hard edge stuff that China produces.
If push comes to shove, the US economy has a handful of air versus what China pumps out every day from ships to cars to laptops to everything that makes roads, ports and rails.