you are still an underdeveloped country. You may have overtaken us in some indicators because of your market size in china, but even a teenager flipping hamburgers in the US as a part time job. makes more than 90% of your countries factory workers, in a month.
Your military spending will increase but your quality is 2 decades behind us. even with stealing our tech.
that still does not make you any super power. You don't have the size of our military, you don't have worldwide bases, you have no NATO like alliance. You will be a regional power always. You know it , I know it and your master CCP knows it.
Being a so called superpower means more than just military power.
It means power of various means such as:
1) Economic (export goods & services, market size, direct investment, lending).
2) Financial (portfolio investment, currency usage).
3) Technological (provider of high-tech goods in various industries).
4) Military (weapons development, weapons exports).
5) Political (aid, UNSC veto power, World Bank voting share, IMF voting share, UN funding budget).
6) Infomation (globally influential news agencies, tv news, newspapers, business news, magazines).
7) Culture (movies, music, brands, tv channels, sports leagues).
China still has a long way to go but we are advancing very fast and we have the US worried. If we are nothing, then we would be ignored, but nearly every story in global media talks about us in whatever way, shape or form. We are ALREADY too powerful and influential to ignore.
Within 20 years, China will be very close to American power.
Let me remind u!!!!!
Indian OIL companies are digging for oil in "south china sea".
But Indian oil companies abandoned two of the blocks because India didn't have the financial resources and the technology to extract the oil.
But I don't need to remind you about our influence in South Asia and our relationships with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives.