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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No, immigrants come to America and a process begins wherein over a few generations some of their cultural traits are added to the whole, and the rest are supplanted by the existing culture that is founded in the law.

The idea that cultures have unique magical properties...
Ahem.

Civil disobedience is a political means.  The point I'm trying to communicate is that, contrary to what most Americans have been led to believe, it not only exists in China, but may even be more common and dramatic than it is here.