China: An emerging super power?

I keep hearing that China is going to become so very powerful and soon.

I honestly don't think China will be a super power soon, they have too many internal problems (rift between rich and poor, corruption, enviornment, various social issues, etc...)

Is it just people talking about things they don't really know anything about or is there some truth to this?  Thoughts?

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>The Chinese have a culture and social structures that predate the government
All cultures and social structures predate the government. Do you think immigrants came to America then instantly lost their memory? The idea that cultures have unique magical properties belongs to an age when rulers had to foster clan loyalties among their subjects in the same way gang members tattoo shit over their faces. When the Chinese no longer have need of them they will discard them like used tampons and if there is a need for them again new ones will be conjured up out of thin air and followed as vehemently as though they were 1000s of years old.

You also forget one major factor, there was no way the Chinese were ever going to get rid of the toll booth through political means.