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Yeah, true. America is having a huge trade deficit, she has a very low tariff barrier thus making imports more profitable. China being a communist country ,the economy is at the hands of the government thus their workers get paid less than us but the government itself enjoys huge surplus ( I am not sure but I think they dont have to fight over tax issues so much like we do )enabling huge investment in infrastructure and military.Developed economies have reached their saturation point but the Indians and Chinese have a huge manpower advantage so we need to keep ourselves ahead in technology and other areas like nuclear power which is going to be the ultimate source of energy in a few decades.

Yeah, true.

Indians and Chinese had great civilizations when the Europeans were still leaving in caves. But it's like a race..towards civilization ! Europeans started the race very late but after the renaissance they did not look back and overtook all the civilizations by the 20th century. The thing is that now we should not be stupid enough to just relax and let others come near us in this race.

The next superpower will be the nation with smartest people, listen! India and China,both are making money and we may be tempted to say that their economy is improving but there is one thing that most western companies are setting up their outsources there due to very cheap labor and their population is being employed. Bangalore, the high tech city of India today follows orders from their HQs in California, it's true that 1/7th of NASA are Indians, it is so because they represent in large numbers from their more than one billion population but they did not produce Einstein or Oppenheimer ! There goes the saying ''ONE LION IS BETTER THAN HUNDRED FOXES '' Yes the smartest people in the world love AMERICA and indeed even academically successful Indians and Chinese end up in America. There are more number of Chinese and Indians in USA than Jews. All of them were raised in the same social environment but have you wondered why there are Spielberg or Dell or Larry Page among the latter only ? there are some following reasons why India and China cannot be super power.... 1. Both India and China have political problems, while China is run by communist dictators, largest democratic Indian parliament is full of corrupt,bad and ignorant leaders( even criminals ). Tell me how will these people make a superpower nation. Indian politicians are not committed to development! look at the roads or the buildings they build or otherwise hundred of Britons could not have subdued the millions of them ! 2. They are making most of the money from foreign companies . 3. Europeans and Americans are ahead of them in their quest of knowledge. Some say India and China are becoming high-tech nations but they imitate technology not innovate ! there are industry workers rather than entrepreneurs. 4. I know Indians who watched Bollywood before but now find it quite dull and silly compared to Hollywood. Look smartest things and innovations are done here. The rest copy it. 5. The biggest advantage, during crisis neither China nor India will have any powerful ally. EU, America and Israel are always there as one ! SO IT IS HARD TO SAY IF AMERICA CAN MAINTAIN ITS STATUS IF THEY CONTINUE TO ELECT PRESIDENTS LIKE BUSH WHO WILL CONTINUE TO WASTE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SHOWING ITS POWER TO THE WORLD BUT THE NEXT SUPERPOWER WILL CONTINUE TO BE AT THE HANDS OF THE AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS.IF THEY CREATED 'ATOM BOMB' IN THE SECOND WILL CREATE 'DEATH STAR' IN THE THIRD. GOD BLESS AMERICA