China has now displaced the U.S. to become the largest economy in the world. Measured by the more refined yardstick that both the IMF and CIA now judge to be the single best metric for comparing national economies, the IMF Report shows that China's economy is one-sixth larger than America's ($24.2 trillion versus the U.S.'s $20.8 trillion). Why can't we admit reality? What does this mean?

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/china-now-world%E2%80%99s-largest-economy-we-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-shocked-170719