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Is China an Overrated Superpower?

Is China an Overrated Superpower?

Economically, geopolitically, demographically and militarily, the Middle Kingdom is showing increasingly visible signs of fragility.

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Sylvain Saurel
Dec 11, 2022
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Over the last two decades, how many headlines, press articles, and books have presented the People's Republic of China as the new first-world power to come, if not already effective? As is often the case with geopolitical apprentices, they have put forward insufficient criteria, such as GDP growth and population. A hasty observation!

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