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Of course, Russia is no longer a global superpower.
A recent Pew poll found that in 15 of 22 countries surveyed, most people believe that China either will replace or has replaced America as “the world’s leading superpower.”
But even Americans are divided equally about whether China will replace the US as a global superpower.
As it basks in its new status as an economic superpower – the dragon that is outpacing Asia’s tigers as well as the donkeys of the West – China is mistakenly downplaying its own serious structural weaknesses.
For seven decades, the United States safeguarded a global framework, which – however imperfect, and regardless of how many mistakes the superpower made – generally guaranteed a minimum level of stability.
The bipolar world of the Cold War is history;George W. Bush squandered America’s brief moment as the only true superpower.
The dramatic build-up of China’s military (especially naval) capability is no more than can be expected of a hugely trade-dependent regional superpower.
The Soviets had their victory in World War II, followed by the creation of a global superpower.
As in the late 19 th century, we have the spectacle of the world's superpower treating indifference as a sign of seriousness!
Here, indeed, the EU missed a big opportunity to tie enlargement to a daring internal reform that would transform it into a superpower.
Moreover, if China, India, and the ASEAN states take the lead in promoting a just resolution for the people of Burma/Myanmar, or if China proves more willing to press North Korea on nuclear weapons, these states will demonstrate that a world with multiple leading stakeholders can be safer than a world led by a single superpower.
The US, of course, remains the world’s only superpower – militarily, economically, politically, and culturally.
Putin’s promise to restore national self-respect, shattered by Russia’s bitter loss of superpower status in 1991, is centered around cowing Europe into submissively accepting Russia’s sphere of “privileged interest” in the post-Soviet nations.
Moreover, a cursory glance at the PLA's readiness training, research and development, weapons acquisition, and indoctrination programs shows that Chinese officials are preparing to fight future wars not only against regional powers, but against a superpower.
Neither the West nor NATO constitutes the decisive strategic threat facing Russia, which comes from the Islamic South and from the Far East, in particular the emerging superpower, China.
American President Barack Obama visited China, more in the spirit of a supplicant to an imperial court than the leader of the world’s greatest superpower.
China, India, and other emerging economies are racing to be the global clean-energy superpower; it would not be in America’s interest to be left behind.
Certainly in defense and foreign policy, a cool and measured response to the extreme provocations that often come with that territory is what the world wants, and needs, from the leader of its reigning superpower.
And, after China, India looms as the next emerging coal-based industrial superpower.
No country, much less a former superpower, likes to be ignored.
But while the US remains an economic and military superpower, other countries are catching up fast.
Europe faults the "world's sole superpower" for standing idly by and then does nothing itself.
Russia might not be a superpower anymore; but, according to Putin, it represents a morally superior civilization battling America’s foreign-policy recklessness, malevolent economic practices, and moral depravity.
When he rightly opposed America’s war against Iraq, the pride of standing up to the world's only superpower was palpable.
China’s foreign policy has increasingly come to reflect its status as a rising superpower.
The United States remains extraordinarily strong, with its military easily the world’s largest and best equipped, but its status as the world’s only superpower will become untenable.
Then, in 1992, Deng Xiaoping set in motion one of the most rapid and total marketizations of a society in history, catalyzing China’s spectacular rise as an economic superpower.
China and a New Balance of PowerSHANGHAI – The last rival superpower to the United States, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1991.
But foreign policy, as we have known it, is essentially a manifestation of the nation state or of the superpower.
How should Europe deal with a Russia that is again pursuing great-power politics and making almost the same mistakes as the Soviet Union, which similarly relied on authoritarianism to try to reconcile the ambitions of a military superpower with the reality of a moderately developed and scarcely modernized economy?
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