china is rapidly increasing economically and projections are they will overtake the US within the next 30 years max.

i agree with magin, the greatest achievement for the US in the last half century is a cultural one, having exported their music,films and lifestyle to the rest of the world.

china will take a long long time if ever to manage to pull that, but economically they will dwarf the US in the very near future.

that said, several of you are foolish or just narrowminded if you think the US will remain the SUPER POWER (kick started by 200 years of slaverly) it has been since the beginning of 20th century, at has been at the top merely 60 years pretty much after World War 2, 60years in terms of the human race and civilisations that have come and gone is a mere drop in the oceans.

there have been many empires in the past egyptian, roman, greek , persian,etc just to name a few, who dominated during their peaks for 100s of years being so advanced during their reign, it would have seemed sheer madness to think it could ever end and come down, but they did. it will be no different for the US, its just a matter of time but i can assure you the world is changing quicker then it did back then when those aformationed empires excisted and the the reshuffle is pretty much around the corner.