“BUT you were right,” goes the subject of an email message sent to me by a consistent follower of this column. He was referring to the article “Thanks to me China has become the world’s largest economy,” which was published the other day. I wrote the article by way of correcting what I believed was a misquote of Chinese President Xi Jinping in an earlier article, “The 21st-century biblical paraphrase: no one goes to world prosperity and peace but by China,” in which he was quoted as saying, “…China has maintained its position as the world’s largest economy” when, as he spoke it in his speech before the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the last phrase should read: “world’s second largest economy.” But a very well read guy, the reader sent a link which he describes thus: “Here’s an item that confirms China is the largest economy.”