Is China an Overrated Superpower?

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

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!

Let's start with the…