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 first red indians to set foot on America were from China so by your reasoning America is essentially Chinese culture with some european cultures thrown in. Civil disobedience has political ends but it has physical means.