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Cheer Up! Maybe the Chinese or Indian superpowers of the future will keep the good ol' USA around like the European powers kept the Spanish American empire, or later the Ottoman empire, hanging on...administrative convienences to collect taxes and pay off the huge debts owed to forgieners.

China is a superpower, but eclipse the United States, not in our lifetimes. 1. They don't have a truly free market economy - still essentially socialist. 2. They have no political liberties. Essentially they have a system ripe for corruption. Just like the soviets. As for military superpower. They have no blue water navy to speak of. They got lots of troops, but to get to most points of interest, they need to move them and materials on ships. Our Navy could take their 100million man army to the bottom of the ocean in a day if they decide to come out and play with us. Their air power is not as good as the Russians, and we see where those battles come. They do have nuclear weapons and ICBMs, but not nearly as many as we do and not as precise. We could smoke'm good. Their technology is derived either from the Russians or us (thanks Bill Clinton). Even their man in space rode on a space capsule that was a Soyuz ripoff. They didn't figure it all out for themselves....China has problems of their own. The church in China is growing powerful. If we are ever eclipsed by the Chinese, it wont be the Communist government in control. It will be Christians with God's blessings.