Is it inevitable that China will be the next world superpower?

Is it inevitable that China will be the next world superpower?

No, and in fact it is unlikely.

It is likely to be the world’s largest economy soon, even if the USA does not wreck itself. It is consistently managing growth above 6% a year, far above any major country nowadays.

Western countries had such growth rate before the “reforms” of the New Right: see The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War.

But China is not looking for hegemony. Mao advised against it, at a time when China was still quite poor but when a global Maoist revolution seemed possible.

Mao’s heirs have kept out of the internal affairs of foreign countries.

Note also that the average Chinese citizen will still be poorer than the average Westerner for some time to come.

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