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?

>>43
The culture of the United States of America began with the ratification of its constitution.
You need to read up on civil disobedience.  The term ‘civil disobedience’ was coined by Henry David Thoreau in 1848. Here's a nice link.    http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/civil-disobedience/
>>41 was an independent assertion that neither agreed, or disagreed with anything I said.
I don't mind trolls.  As I have said here before, they only serve to facilitate discussion.  The only thing in this thread that's "obvious" is that you have been outclassed.