Leadified on 09 October 2014
| curl-6 said: I may be a bigot for saying this, but the thought of China as the world's superpower frightens me. |
China has a long way to go before it can be considered a superpower. China is well behind the West in terms of a rich middle class, a large amount of people live in poverty, and a majority live under $5 a day and China is surrounded by rival countries including countries which China had wars with in the last 70 years, including India, Japan and Vietnam. The United States, the UK and the Soviet Union (to a lesser degree) also have had a massive cultural impact on the world which was a proof of their hegemony. So raw GDP doesn't mean much on it's own.
