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Emerging Superpower

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China is an emerging superpower. Greater China (including Hong Kong) will attain superpower status early in the 21st century, based on its strategic geographic position in the Eurasian land mass, possession of a large conventional military force, a large national economy, and nuclear weapon capability.

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  1. In 1980 China was testing ICBMs with a range of 7000 nautical miles, cov-ering all the USSR and parts of the US. Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Random House, New York, 1987, p. 449.

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  8. World Bank economists have estimated considerably higher GNP based on purchasing power parity (PPP) comparisons. The 1992 estimate based on PPP is four times higher than the estimate based on market exchange rates. Martin Wolf, ‘China as Next Superpower?’ Financial Times, November 7, 1994, p. 22.

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  1. College of Business Administration, St John’s University, New York, USA

    Francis A. Lees (Alois J. Theis Professor of Global Finance)

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Lees, F.A. (1997). Emerging Superpower. In: China Superpower. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371699_4

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