Is China a superpower?
2006-06-17 06:55:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
No not until they get more organized. If they finally became a Democracy or Republic they would have a good shot. But now they are far from it U.S. is still the top dog.
2006-06-17 06:58:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 5⤋
i don't understand why you would imagine that the ecu is in league with China. the ecu is a conglomerate of thoroughly diverse international locations with diverse governments, ethnicities, languages and cultures. To upward thrust to the right, you may be united adverse to a straight forward enemies with a straight forward reason. The voters of the ecu member states in a lot of cases do not even prefer to be a area of the ecu. not frequently a recipe for success. China, on the different hand, is already an economic powerhouse and is perchance to proceed it really is upward thrust to the right yet i'd argue it really isn't any longer a foregone end: a million. The numbers provided by ability of the authorities can not be depended on. operating example, between the provinces provided archives indicating that it had considered a 9.5% economic improve it really is far better than it ought to were lower than any circumstances, by ability of any stretch of the mind's eye. also, their economic gadget is depending just about completely on exports. they could't promote all of those synthetic products that are making them rich of their personal usa; 2. There are over a thousand million human beings in this usa yet in case you seem at it in totality, you've 2 independent areas that do not prefer to be a area of China (Xin Jiang - riots there nevertheless ongoing sporadically - and Tibet), you've Macau (which has it really is personal overseas money and authorities), you've Hong Kong (which has it really is personal overseas money and authorities), you've Taiwan (which has it really is personal overseas money and authorities and would not prefer to be a area of China in any respect). Taiwan and Hong Kong actually have their personal passports (no longer effective about Macau). confusing to administration all of those human beings lower than those circumstances because that they are quite no longer the form of united human beings; 3. the way that the authorities works is, at present day, predicated on complete administration and the actually everyone appears oftentimes pleased with this. which will replace as better foreigners with their overseas options flood into the country for economic causes. as well to those pressures, you've deep divisions in the celebration itself; 4. area of being a superpower is the export of subculture. China is somewhat lacking in this dept. and could probable stay so. i imagine i'm right here at an quite exciting time and that's going to be exciting to ascertain how issues bypass.
2016-10-14 06:15:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Superpower in terms of economic. I have been in China this recent years, I was surprised to see the economic boom. From Shenzen, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Beijing, Shanghai, etc. I have seen ten of thousands of buildings (20 storeys and up)simultaneously constructing. Never in my life, I have seen such a big boom in economy.
In terms of military and defense system, I believe they are superpower, too. They could defend their country against invaders or leftist group. But they are in no way, using their military power to interfere other countries internal affair.
2006-06-17 07:15:18 · answer #3 · answered by leonxinef 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They will be "the" superpower in 10-20 years.
2006-06-17 06:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by nonono12345 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Economically, they are well on their way. Militarily too. However, if you get out of the cities, they are still very much in third world mode. Whether they can sustain their rate of growth may be problematical too. After, all, when you start at zero, it's easy to have a high growth rate...
2006-06-17 06:59:22 · answer #5 · answered by aboukir200 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well they are big enough to hurt us real bad if they want to. and we have been paying for it. look at the bottom of your dishes almost everything is made in china!
2006-06-17 08:10:08 · answer #6 · answered by Stand 4 somthing Please! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In their mind only, but give it some time. The world will be a much more dangerous place in years to come.
2006-06-17 07:52:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not anywhere near that of America because they are Communist and they are still too opressed internally to be able to use the sheer force of how many people they have and their economic upper hand to their advantage...
2006-06-17 07:12:19 · answer #8 · answered by Maggie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pretty much, they do manufacture a very large percentage of the worlds products and its getting pretty rich...
2006-06-17 07:00:19 · answer #9 · answered by The Wizard of Scissors 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not yet.heading that way.Could have a 200 million man army.
2006-06-17 06:59:39 · answer #10 · answered by robert p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋