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I always thought that Luck would be the best superpower, but this does sounds like the most satisfying of all superpowers 🤔

One smack and the villian goes, "Oh, I see now, I'M the problem!" 😂

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"Strikingly, nearly two-thirds of respondents said China currently matches or exceeds the United States in power and influence globally (see figure 5). In addition, that question surfaced a significant difference by gender: More women (71 percent) than men (58 percent) thought China was as powerful as or more powerful than United States.

Even larger numbers of Americans envision China overtaking the United States in the future. When asked how long it would take for China to surpass the United States, respondents gave varied timelines: 47 percent believed China has already surpassed the United States or will do so within the next five years, 27 percent said the power transition would take longer, and only 26 percent said China will never catch up (see figure 6).1 By a three-to-one margin, then, Americans envision China overtaking the United States in power and influence at some point.
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Even though a majority of respondents placed importance on U.S. global power and influence, 54 percent said their lives would be unaffected if China were to outmatch the United States in global power (see figure 14). Combined with the small number who thought their lives would improve, a total of 62 percent judged their lives would not get worse if China gained more power than the United States."

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2026/01/what-americans-think-about-american-power-today?lang=en

#USA #China #SuperPowers #Imperialism #PoliticalEconomy

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Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum

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Concentration.

Mrs Miasma was not impressed with my choice of super-powers during our discussion about what super-powers we would wish for.

I maintain the ability to concentrate cholesterol in others would be a great super-power.

The potential uses of such a power are left as an exercise to the reader.

(I've always wanted to say that bit about leaving something as an exercise to the reader.)

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"Today, scholars and policymakers debate whether China will rival the United States as a superpower or is already in decline. The rise of India and the resurgence of Russia, meanwhile, have led many to proclaim the arrival of multipolarity. Widely divergent views about the balance of power are common because power, although foundational to international politics, remains an elusive concept.

To reckon with this challenge, I developed a methodology for comparing national power—one that uses common metrics (GDP, for instance, or military expenditure) in modern and historical data to determine a threshold for great-power status. My study found that arguing about whether China is catching up to the United States misses the point. Great powers have often been far weaker than the leading state—the most powerful country in the global system—but nevertheless engaged in dangerous security competitions. Moreover, my methodology revealed that China today is already more powerful than the Soviet Union was during the Cold War. Modern China, then, is not just a great power but a superpower.

The world, in short, is bipolar. Many middle powers are influential actors within their regions, but only the United States and China exceed the great-power threshold. This development explains rising tension in U.S.-Chinese relations and suggests that other countries will find it increasingly difficult to stay out of the crossfire of the rivalry. Bipolarity, for instance, helps explain the recent U.S. preoccupation with Latin America, where China has gained significant economic and political influence. As the dynamic between China and the United States grows only more competitive, Washington will find such encroachments intolerable—just as China may similarly refuse to accept U.S. political and military involvement in its own backyard."

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/multipolar-mirage#

#USA #China #Bipolar #InternationalRelations #Geopolitics #Imperialism #Superpowers #PoliticalEconomy