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For the next two decades at least America will remain the only real superpower.

As the sole military superpower, the United States may often be able to undertake unilateral initiatives for the sake of national security.

If you were a superhero, your name would be Captain Arrogant. And you know what your superpower would be?

But such a rivalry is not unusual between a superpower and a rising competitor desperate to protect its burgeoning interests.

Those old enough to remember the 1980s will recall that Japan used to be an up-and-coming economic superpower.

The United States is the only superpower, and it's likely to remain that way for two or three decades.

If some Chinese politicians had not been at loggerheads with one another, China could have become a superpower.

No longer a superpower, it has decided to try to maintain good relations with key countries around the globe.

Since the downfall of the Gang of Four, we too have made it a state policy to oppose superpower hegemony and keep world peace.

The military budget of China, so often touted as the next superpower, is less than one-seventh of that.

Only a strong, but more humble America can pull off the trick of dealing with an emerging superpower and a fast-growing region, he says.

"The United States is the world's number one superpower, and the American people, they're very simple people, " he said.

Never in human history can the government of one superpower have lent so much to that of another.

Being the world's sole superpower can often seem to be a curse and a burden to the public, which must bear its momentous responsibilities.

You know: Economic superpower gets into a financial bubble.

This heralds China's elevation to superpower status. It'll be interesting to see how the United States responds.

Yes, they are the next Superpower. Between the new bullet train and this, no doubt.

It is not at all hard to paint a picture of the future that has the US and China fighting it out for the title of superpower-in-chief.

For a while, U. S. power was checked by the Soviet Union, but since the end of the Cold War, America has been the sole superpower.

As the world's only superpower, America may look today as if global domination is an entitlement.

Britain's self- image as a so- called pocket- superpower has long been a flimsy conceit ; now it will have still smaller pockets .

Who cares. . . all the frenzy over two godless countries trying to gain superpower status.

"Labeling China as a superpower is not in line with the country's goals, " he said.

They were raised as Soviets, spoke Russian as a native language, and were taught to believe that they were citizens of the great superpower.

in addition, the Eastern superpower has been upping its spending in Africa far above the engagement of any other country.

When We were called Sick man of Asia, We were called The Peril. When We are billed to be the next Superpower, We are called The threat.

Let the US be a military superpower; let China be an economic superpower - Europe would be the lifestyle superpower.

Nor did a popular search engine, Google, show signs that it might be a lucrative business, much less a new technology superpower.

As the superpower's clout seems to ebb towards Asia, the world's most consistently inventive and optimistic country has lost its mono.

But for a growing number of Americans the superpower's inability to impose its will on Mesopotamia is symptomatic of a deeper malaise.

And a frugal American superpower is sure to have ripple effects around the globe.

Since we are a superpower and a nation on our way out, might as well try it. . . desperate times call for desperate measures.

Gradually in the 18th century an anti-slavery lobby built up in Europe, notably in Britain, the superpower of the seas.

America's modern history as a great superpower begins with its reaction to that attack.

English should be the only international language. American's will not learn Chinese. We shouldn't have to. America is the only superpower.

Americans believe that we're the sole remaining superpower and the objective of our foreign policy is to get people to go along with that.

With a strong will to prosper and develop more, China is certainly rising as a superpower.

The main flaw in this article is the fact that it completely ignores: China's emergence as a superpower is driving nationalism.

Compared to that, America dominates an entire continent! China may become a superpower, but not a hyper-power like the US.

But I also realised that the world's next superpower cannot be truly understood through secondhand stories, lectures or case studies.

China, Russia, India and others are rising, and to call the U. S. the world's 'sole superpower' now means little.

The United States is the only superpower in the world, and it is far more advanced than any other country.

To have the courage to stand up to the world's only superpower would surely magnify his stature.

In the description of its accelerator accelerator board is discussed the fact that it ensures super-power (Superpower).

This was the age of the single superpower.

Billed as a coming-out party for the next superpower, the Beijing Olympics could be the same for many local brands.

just as the us leveraged its superpower status to promote its language and culture , beijing is busy exporting its tongue.

I'm afraid I can't agree with you. Chinese leaders have already said China will never be a superpower.

At the war's end, much of Europe and Asia were in ruins, and America stood alone as the world's economic superpower.

Similarly, many Europeans may yearn for a less interventionist America; but an isolationist superpower could be much more frightening.

America has had a bruising decade. But do not underestimate either the superpower or its president.

With oil reserves, relatively high levels of education, and an economy roughly the size of Turkey's, Iran should be a rising superpower.

But China is a very different case, as a burgeoning superpower with a vast population and enormous domestic needs.

Back in 2000 America stood tall as the undisputed superpower, at peace with a generally admiring world.

And, as the world's only superpower, America has no choice but to continue to worship Mars as well as Venus.

It goes without saying that the world's sole superpower does not want to let such an important player as Egypt go its own way.

The crusades weakened feudalism, reduced the rule of the church, and made the Italian cities become a superpower to Mediterranean trade.

After the Cold War, the United States grows to be the only superpower in the world.

However tarnished, the U. S. is the last superpower, and in times of crisis, the world still looks to it.

He poured scorn on the notion that the U. S. thought of itself as a superpower "even after all these successive defeats. "

I don't see anything smart is being done by China which will make it a superpower in the future.

Unlike the anti-Soviet mujahideen, they argue, the Taliban, al-Qaeda and their allies do not have the support of a superpower.

The following photographs depict this complicated, contentious, and often lucrative history of a superpower and its Asian allies and foes.

The United States has become the only superpower after the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was disintegrated.

Will China attempt to translate its economic strength into military might and challenge the dominance of the world's sole superpower?

A small country like Israel is now a superpower in terms of military technology.

It was the planet's only superpower and saw itself as a popular champion of global democracy.

But the United States has been cautious with its criticism of the emerging superpower.

Everyone wants to have at least one superpower.

A country must possess three characteristics to be a global economic superpower: size, dynamism and openness.

The US is still a formidable military superpower but its international influence is in steep decline.

Over lunch at the foreign ministry, officials are careful to avoid talk of a "second superpower" .

Let them become a superpower . . . maybe it will take some heat of the U. S. and our outrageous spending for military.

Collective defense always assumed that America would come to Europe's aid against a superpower like the Soviet Union.

Slowly, ineluctably, the Tibetans become just another of the globe's landless peoples lost in the shadow of a rising superpower.

There, it has slowly been transformed into the first aircraft carrier of a future superpower.

Unlike the anti-Soviet mujahideen, who were backed by America, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the Taliban have no superpower sponsor.

But military prowess is not the only -- or necessarily the most important -- component of superpower status.

The definition of a superpower is that you are able to project force beyond your immediate geographic area.

This blinkered view gets us nowhere. China is a proud nation with a turbulent history, and it makes no secret of its superpower ambitions.

China is soon to become the next superpower while America is going downhill.

Officials commonly assert that, as an emerging superpower, China must have its own General Electrics and Microsofts.

It may be convenient to be defended by the world's superpower, but self-respect matters too.

Though withholding food from an emerging superpower could lower domestic food prices, it would be bad diplomacy.

In Africa, Chinese diplomats present themselves as an alternative foreign superpower, without the baggage of colonialism.

China is like a dragon, with a superpower status to stand tall in Oriental!

Even your nationality sets you apart. The great majority of you belong to the world's only remaining superpower.

As the unrivaled global superpower, America exports its culture on an unprecedented scale.

Although it was a very brief civilization, Nazi Germany was a superpower, and affected the world greatly.

Over the past two decades Israel has been transformed from a semisocialist backwater into a high-tech superpower.

"It might not be a global superpower yet, but it has accelerated that trend. "

China will never be a superpower and it opposes hegemony and power politics of any kind.

But it is no less possible that the outcome would have been the same no matter what the superpower said or did.

It is also said to be a superpower and its media is very influential as well.

India's superpower dreams, it said, might appear to be justified. But they are mingled "with the thought of hegemony" .

Yes, they say, they agreed to back America's war: refusing would have made an enemy of a superpower.

The Vietnamese know China is a superpower that isn't going away and prefer to have good relations with the big guy next door.

"We are the first among equals, not the last superpower standing, " he concludes.

Honestly, if you ask an ordinary Chinese the superpower question, he'd likely to get very puzzled. Many would think you are joking.

During the cold war the Europeans depended on and deferred to their superpower protector (though France was always stroppy).

The essence of the struggle is opposition to imperialist and particularly superpower monopoly, exploitation and shifting of economic crises.

But there are worse reasons than preventing a bloodbath for a superpower to put its soldiers at risk.

Many Europeans may view the U. S. as an arrogant superpower that has become hostile to foreigners.

But Yang added: "China is ideally placed to. . . [become] the world's superpower in terms of smart energy and renewable energy. "

Underpinning the growing popularity of things Chinese is the emergence of China as a potential world political and economic superpower.

The US is currently the sole superpower on earth but that exclusive status is likely to be short-lived.

CHINA may be rushing toward superpower status, but not all of it is in a hurry.

Europe's existence as a "lifestyle superpower" has depended on an ample supply of credit.

The defining characteristic of such a superpower is that it cannot expect to remain a free rider.

Thirty years ago, as a keen but naive young economist, I predicted that by 2000 Iran would be an industrial superpower.

In its ascent to Internet superpower, social enterprise Facebook has amassed an enormous amount of user information.

Beyond altering international league tables, what will China's emergence as an economic superpower signify?

In the years to come, an economically bruised U. S. may have to share the superpower spotlight with the competition.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's president, told Apec leaders the world should no longer be dominated by a sole superpower.

Just adding some investment income instead of becoming a fully integrated superpower is not the ultimate goal of Shanda.

As China emerges as an economic superpower, the connection between national and personal affluence is being broken.

In the case of Beijing, we also recognize the potential for superpower political and military status.

The prospect of assisting China's birth as an industrial superpower exerts a powerful pull on other Chinese professionals.

This switched on warning lights among China's coastal neighbours as well as the US, the incumbent superpower.

Commentators also sometimes confuse China's rapid progress and likely emergence as a superpower with present-day reality.

When Mr Obama visits Asia, he does so as head of state of a battered superpower.

Despite its formidable nuclear arsenal, it is no longer a military superpower.

Still others predict this will be the games when China gets crowned the next sporting superpower.

A decade on, the sole superpower is not going to shuffle off its sprawling interests and commitments overnight.

The Soviet Union became an industrial giant, a military superpower, and a threat to the West.

There is a mixed sense of pride and trepidation at the rise of an Asian superpower.

Since the U. S. occupies such an important position in science and technology, naturally it has become the first superpower in the world.

Unlike China, Brazil has abundant land and water resources, and these days is an agricultural exporting superpower.

It is 20 years since India had a balance-of-payments crisis and for a long time the talk has been about it becoming an economic superpower.

At the same time, Mr Ban knows that he cannot be seen to be too cosy with the American superpower.

Amid the rubble of the financial crisis, the US position as singular superpower and global economic top dog looks increasingly under threat.

Both ultimately triumphed in their epic struggles and found themselves the lone superpower in a unipolar world.

Military expansion is never enough to sustain the status of superpower.

Over the centuries, scholars have attempted to locate the real Atlantis - believing the account was based on a real ancient superpower.

We are a superpower to be reckoned with, was the message, and we won't play by your rules.

I was born with just one superpower: the ability to see other people's super powers.

Fortunately you happen to be a good friend of the world's only superpower.

Tony Blair's idea was to stick close to the superpower.

When they are it harnesses the core competency, (or superpower) of the company.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States has been the world's sole superpower.

As a superpower, the US has the ability, not available to lesser nations, to cut ties with those it does not like.

The race to the moon was an end in itself - a magnificent "stunt" , driven by superpower rivalry.

A real superpower should know what the advantages the other countries have, and improve its own disadvantages. Keep laughing is meaningless.

That Hollywood movie embodies the final reason why China won't be a superpower: Beijing's animating ideas just aren't that animating.

'When a superpower comes it brings a lot of its own agenda, ' said Asean Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan.

I consider writing to be a superpower of mine now because I stuck with it.

The perception that China is a superpower is now deeply ingrained in US popular culture.

Is China on course to surpass the United States as the world's space superpower and stake a claim on the moon in the next 15 years?

By any measure, the US remains the sole superpower, but few imagine it can any longer set the direction of global events on its own.

The US remains the dominant global superpower, with a history of political stability.

China's emergence as a supercomputing superpower should not have come as a surprise.

The great majority of you belong to the world's only remaining superpower.

It is not for nothing that she is today wooed alike by both the sole superpower as well as states in Central Asia or North Africa.

The United States is the superpower of the world-famous, always stressed that everyone is equal.

The desire to preempt possible moves by one superpower.

We make it clear to the world that we'll never behave like a superpower.

China is indeed the fragile superpower of her book's subtitle.

American congressmen and officials feared that the world's sole superpower would become the target of politically-motivated prosecutions.

If I could have a superpower, it would it be flying.

Mr Bush needs to remind his top people that, especially in a superpower, a little politeness goes a long way.

Citizens of a superpower again had to bear the indignity of sugar rations.

That said, China is bent on superpower rivalry; reserve currency status for the renminbi is a glint in the party's eye.

The 1989 superpower was the USSR, its modern day equivalent is the US. Naturally it isn't that simple, but that's not my point.

How high will this price jump when the rest of the world decides that the bankruptcy of "the world's only superpower" is here?

That remains to be tested, but the belief in the country's economic superpower status remains firmly intact.

The US protects the trade routes that have allowed China to become a rising economic superpower.

More than half of the 2, 347 respondents said Japan does not need to be a global superpower.

The service saw itself as the high tech deterrent against an apocalyptic encounter with another superpower.

Its appetite for Western luxury items seems as insatiable as the country's rise to global superpower status seems inevitable.

For China, as a resource-user and nascent superpower, policy in this area is of potentially the highest importance.

As for Britain, some accuse Tony Blair of following George Bush into Iraq to shore up Britain's "special relationship" with the superpower.

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The Japanese are feeling the impact of China's emergence as an economic superpower in many different ways.

The Emperor surrounded by the civil officers who formed the central policy system, possessed superpower.

Western leaders appear increasingly wary of courting the Dalai Lama too closely, for fear of angering the emerging Chinese superpower.

Mr Mubarak's immediate value to the superpower is summarised conveniently in a 2009 State Department cable disclosed by WikiLeaks.

Atlantic Monthly journalist James Fallows believes China's lack of global brands is proof it is not an economic superpower.

Vietnam for withstanding the might of a superpower and prevailing.

China's current ruling class dreams of being the new superpower, which goes directly against the path charted by Mao Zedong.

But if China becomes an economic superpower, then Wenzhou's manufacturing mechanism will have an impact upon the whole world economy.

It was engineering prowess that lifted this nation from postwar defeat to economic superpower.

The British empire became the global superpower of the 19th century. And the world speaks English, not French.

But as China gains international heft, its lack of globally-recognized brands threatens its dream of becoming a superpower.

It is no fun being a superpower, for with power come great responsibilities and the suspicion of foreigners.

America needs to rely on its economic reality and military force to maintain its leading superpower status, and tries to dominate the world.

But it reflects the new tone with which China presumes it can address a humbled superpower.

"Russia still has superpower nostalgia, " says Dimitri Simes, head of the Nixon Center in Washington.

But refusing to accept criticism is not necessarily the same thing as thinking of oneself as a superpower.

and was extolled by Marx as the then "Marine Superpower" .

But Mr Ahmadinejad says that his country's vaunted superpower status rests on its human and cultural qualities.

Why, then, do China's rulers continue to backslide into doubt and fear, and why do they seek to avoid having China labeled a superpower?

Harping on Russia's lost superpower status and political instability while extolling the benefits of democracy will get us nowhere.

South Korea is a vigorous democracy with historical suspicion of the regional superpower.

Over the past few years especially, many artists have attempted to mold the nation's past shame into something befitting a superpower.

Whether it is precocious or premature, China is still a tentative superpower.

Many of these were underutilized or misused during its two decades as the world's lone superpower.

The U. S. economy is the world's largest. America remains the preeminent superpower.

But is China really going to be another superpower? I doubt it.

Will China be the next innovation superpower?

China will not be a superpower, not either today or even in future.

But talk of the world's first green superpower remains as premature as the image of the "red menace" is outdated.

near the ark of national priority. Because the country too much, just to name a few global superpower!

Can China really reinvent itself as a lean, green technological superpower?

If America is to remain the world's economic superpower, it must capitalise on the opportunities and confront the challenges.

Our target is the Arsenale, the maze of shipyards and armouries that fuelled Venice's rise as a 13th century mercantile superpower.

And this new superpower, The Empire of the Rising Sun, isn't real keen on establishing diplomatic relations.

The cost of MiFei kill each other will further weaken the American superpower status, the troubled enemies.

This third system has one single global superpower, the US, but a series of regional superpowers.

China's new sporting superpower status reflects its emerging global economic might, Reuters commented.

Dealing with a superpower like China without leverage?

Some Burmese may wish that their country will not become a new cockpit of superpower rivalry.

I don't think that's fair, since I have absolutely no doubt China will be the next great superpower.

S. is a superpower, after all, very important strategic interests in the Middle East, and soon turned to God, to adjust the policy.

The term has a patronising ring. But it remains the best framework for dealing with the rising Chinese superpower.

As an island on the doorstep of the 20th century's superpower, Cuba's sad history was moulded by geography.

Many American strategists including Henry Kissinger have insisted that China has become a global superpower.

It kind of makes you wonder if China is the next superpower.

They could not really understand why a superpower should compromise with a smaller regional bully.

Mr Summers has previously remarked on the tension between superpower status and net foreign indebtedness.

Some feel their countries are too small to count in the world, so seek a share of a European superpower.

They have seen their country emerge as an economic superpower, and they feel they deserve a piece of the pie.

China is not , and will not be a superpower.

An elderly woman whose superpower is that she can speak telepathically to animals gets bit by a squirrel.

Some background knowledge and remarks about the great superpower spy war between Soviet and U.

But shoddy treatment of minorities by Thailand, long an American ally, bodes ill for others hoping for help from the superpower.

The question now is not whether China will become a superpower, but what kind it will be.

As a sportswear maker, you must have a huge market in such a sports superpower as your country.

Congrats to the next superpower, China!

A sporting superpower. The Beijing Olympics this year will confirm China s supremacy in international sports.

Although it is emerging as a military power, China is already an economic superpower, say experts like Saez.

Extra Nerd : Besides his optic energy blasts, his other superpower is "intuitive spatial geometry. "

The theories of 'checking superpower' and 'maintaining equilibrium' also apply to the media.

China has crept into the superpower league by deftly building friendly ties with regional powers.

That question formed the basis for SuperPower Nation Day - an experiment in multi-lingual debate and discussion.

Experts believe that, as China becomes a world superpower, Russia's influence will diminish - a fate the Kremlin is unlikely to accept.

There's much more to being a superpower than the mere size of your economy.

China will finally become a superpower in my opinion. What do you think?

China has said that it wants to be a research superpower by 2020.

Standard & Poor's recent downgrade of America's credit rating appears to confirm the superpower's steady slippage.

If you're a China watcher, read this: The rise of an economic superpower: What does China want?

China has emerged as a manufacturing superpower only very recently.

Even in the decades after it lost its empire, Britain strode the world like a pocket superpower.

The answer is that they appropriated much of the wealth of a collapsing superpower.

France today is no superpower, but French influence in some spheres significant.

Lithuanians (once a superpower, now outnumbered ten to one by Poland) think it brought linguistic and cultural decline.

The most populous nation on earth has already transformed itself into an economic superpower and shows no signs of stopping.

That America became the superpower and Argentina the basket-case was not preordained.

As a superpower in the world, America's strategy hass great influence on the international society.

The people of the occupied country conducted various activities against the invasion of the superpower.

Hollywood imported income-sharing films not only occupy an absolute superiority, at the box office, is a superpower in the domestic market.