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Tue 08 Aug 2010China overtakes Japan to become second largest economy in world
It is only five years since China’s economy was half the size of Japan’s, writes CLIFFORD COONANin Beijing
CHINA’S ECONOMY overtook Japan in the second quarter to become the second largest in the world behind the US, the latest milestone of growth in a country consistently breaking records.
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