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Superpower status requires two competencies - 1) economics / technology and a 2) developed military industry. Only the USA and the USSR were passable for both of this. China does not and will not have a second. Russia has problems with the first. And the United States is also losing its competences.
P.S. Thread is not about this. I think that only few big cities (trade/tech centres) in China can be listed as "first world".
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