British economy set to overtake Germany's as Europe's largest - due to Brexit

[Curious Cdn]

Which the Chinese government WILLINGLY bought.

You make it sound as if there was a coherent government of some sort, there.

 

[Blackleaf]

You make it sound as if there was a coherent government of some sort, there.

The Chinese government willingly bought opium. So they weren't bothered about opium in their country.

It's a myth which has somehow been perpetrated that the Chinese government didn't want it in their country and they fought the British to prevent the stuff entering their country.

 

[Curious Cdn]

The Chinese government willingly bought opium. So they weren't bothered about opium in their country.
It's a myth which has somehow been perpetrated that the Chinese government didn't want it in their country and they fought the British to prevent the stuff entering their country.

There wasn't what you'd think of as a "Chinese" government in the middle of the 19th century. There were not a lot of national governments around, anywhere. Germany, Italy, Canada ... those entities were still well into the future when the Opium Wars happened.

 

[Hoid]

By 2030, the UK will overtake Germany economically. It will overtake Germany as Europe's most populous nation by 2050.

A demography report from the European statistics agency Eurostat in 2015 predicted that the UK would have the continent's biggest population by 2050, reaching 77.2 million, while Germany's will have dropped to 74.7 million.

The long-term forecast from the OECD predicts that the UK will have the biggest economy in Europe by 2050, overtaking Germany in the early 2030s: https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gdp-long-term-forecast.htm

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance...in-will-become-biggest-economy-in-Europe.html

https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...d-Western-Europe-Angela-Merkel-George-Osborne

first link/first graph shows UK trailing Germany in 2066

FFS read your links