The updated edition of the book, published on Thursday, also records a host of new British record breakers.

BBC: Tiny cow from Cheshire among new Guinness World Records

But this China trade story is really a tale of two record breakers.

FORBES: China Imports Of U.S. Goods A Record-Breaker

We lose our confidence and become world record breakers in the blame game (more on that in a minute).

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Astronomers captured the spectra of the two record breakers with a 3.5-metre (11.5 feet) telescope, located at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, also the site of the SDSS telescope.

BBC: Most distant objects observed