As a share of GDP, South Korea's military spending is bigger than China's, Japan's and Brazil's.
Its stockmarket capitalisation is four times bigger than China's and it has more than twice as many firms in the Fortune global 500, which lists the world's biggest companies by revenue.
In China, Apple is bigger than Justin Beiber.
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Thanks to its irrepressible growth, China's national income is bigger than its planners expected.
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China's economy is now bigger than Japan's, but less noticed is the fact that Asia's so-called newly industrialised economies (NIEs) are, one by one, becoming richer than Japan.
The GDP of China and India is many times bigger now than it was in the mid-1970s.
Volvo, which is bigger and healthier than its Swedish rival, may be sold to Geely, China's biggest privately owned carmaker.
The G20 is a chance to give China a bigger stake in global decision-making than was available in the small clubs of the G7 and G8.
China's economy is the world's seventh largest, bigger than Canada's and Russia's, with a GDP climbing toward the trillion-dollar level.
He says that the Shenzhou VI is bigger than the Shenzhou V and represents an evolution beyond the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft technology on which China had based earlier ships.
Coming out of the crisis, the combined stockmarket capitalisation of the three parts of Greater China is more than a third that of Japan's, and their turnover is 50% bigger.
This is one reason why credit default swaps suggest India is already a bigger investment risk than emerging markets such as Vietnam and more than double the risk of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa.
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