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Who is the next superpower?

Who do you think will be the next superpower?

  • China

    Votes: 14 46.7%

  • European Union *

    Votes: 5 16.7%

  • India

    Votes: 4 13.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 7 23.3%
  • Total voters
    30
Maximus Zeebra said:
Also Europe is the only state which is intentionally building a superpower from scratch, and the only one to ever do so. And it has all the experience of all previous superpowers to draw from.
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However, there are existing superpowers that it must rival against, so a unified Europe will be the low man on the totem pole trying to become king of the mountain.

Maximus Zeebra said:
I would be surprised if Europes rise to superpower would even slow down, rather than keep accelerating indefinetely.
Not all people like this, many view it as a "political elite" project, an unstoppable force towards a super state.
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I think the world economic recession is slowing every nations' rise quite a bit.
 
chevydriver1123 said:
China or India. Europe and the EU are a joke, when they start learning how to defend themselves without us then maybe we start talking about superpower status.
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Defend themselves against what?
The days of military land grabs are over, just ask Israel or Iraq..
The super-power criteria is now economic, with Japan and Germany in the lead, as I see it. But with India, China, and Korea competing, this will split things a lot..
 
Maximus Zeebra said:
Also Europe is the only state which is intentionally building a superpower from scratch, and the only one to ever do so. And it has all the experience of all previous superpowers to draw from.

I would be surprised if Europes rise to superpower would even slow down, rather than keep accelerating indefinetely.
Not all people like this, many view it as a "political elite" project, an unstoppable force towards a super state.
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You'd better define Superpower, because I'm certainly not seeing any march towards introducing a military element into the EU project, not at all. Nor even any enthusiasm for action resembling state-hood. What are you seeing from over there that we are missing over here?
 
I don't think the US has reached it's peak just yet. So we will see the USA still be the superpower till at least 2100. The US might last till 2300 who knows, there has never been a superpower with the strength of the US. All those who say the US will fall or not be a superpower are just upset that the US can be so powerful and so young.
It's like this scenario: A man works at a company for 30yrs and has done many great things for the company. In those 30yrs he never worked for someone younger so it is a shock for him when the company hires a new boss a position he suspected of getting and the company chooses a new employee that has had only three years experience and he is in his 20s still unlike the 50yr old.
The US is a power unlike any other because we don't have those old traditions which hold us back like the others.
 
samsmart said:
I think the world economic recession is slowing every nations' rise quite a bit.
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The power most hurt by this is the US, due to the fall in confidence other now have in its economic ability and economic management ability, and even economic model. Before, the US model was what everyone aimed for and believed to be indisciminately great.
 
Andalublue said:
You'd better define Superpower, because I'm certainly not seeing any march towards introducing a military element into the EU project, not at all. Nor even any enthusiasm for action resembling state-hood. What are you seeing from over there that we are missing over here?
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A superpower is not defined by military power...The greatest superpowers are the ones which have a model that other aspire to follow.
 
earthworm said:
Defend themselves against what?
The days of military land grabs are over, just ask Israel or Iraq..
The super-power criteria is now economic, with Japan and Germany in the lead, as I see it. But with India, China, and Korea competing, this will split things a lot..
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China is building a brand new military strategy, where economic tools and manipulation is playing a far more important role than troops and old fashion military meneuvers. Also electronic, digital, infrastructure type attacks will be far more devestating in the future than military invasion.

Thats what Europe needs to build a future defense against, or simply just build infrastructure with superior security infrastructure. That is the best defense. Not to say that we should not have old fashion men with guns as well.
 
chevydriver1123 said:
Putin

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What are you basing this on? So long as Russia can assert its influence within its 'near abroad' Putin couldnt give a toss what goes on in the E.U. I doubt i will be seeing Russia hordes crossing the channel any time soon
 
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