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You missed the point of my post, so I'll try again.

The reason the US has been the world's leading power since WWII is because it is consistently the most technologically advanced. Sure, China may have a larger "economy" in future years, but so what? Lots of shirt factories and TV plants don't make your country a superpower, overwhelming military strength does. The US is the leader in that area, and China will never catch up. Ergo, the US will continue to be the world's major superpower.

China IS less creative than Western countries - when was the last time China produced an outstanding book, movie, technologicala breakthrough, or new intellectual concept? Not in the last 50 years, that's for sure. And I agree with Uncowed (#26) that at least part of the reason is the lack of personal freedom there.

BTW, China's continuous economic growth is not guaranteed. If they start sucking too many jobs from the US, or invade Taiwan, you can be sure the US business rug will be pulled out from underneath them!

China is continuing to make advances in military warfighting techniques, including a crucial ability to direct multiple forces from different branches of service in the same theater of operations, a recent analysis said.

According to a report written by Al Santoli -- an Asian-affairs expert, editor of the American Foreign Policy Council's China Reform Monitor, and a senior national-security adviser to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. -- during "ongoing large-scale military exercises, China has demonstrated significant new joint-service warfighting skills 'under high-tech conditions' that are steadily altering the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait."

Specifically, the report said, China's People's Liberation Army is applying U.S. military doctrine to integrate its "relentless expanding" of strategic missile forces; high performance Su-27 and Su-30 fighter planes bought from Russia; new blue-water, long-range naval ships, including a pair of Russian-built Sovremenny-class destroyers armed with SS-N-22 "Sunburn" anti-ship missiles; state-of-the-art communications systems purchased from U.S. and Western companies; and "development of advanced information and electronic warfare capabilities."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21547