Protocol man
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Merchants selling consumer goods do not become global power.
They only have cash, which others take away. That is not super power status.
All that infrastructural progress is worthless, if it is designed facilitate more consumer goods, get more cash and deposit it in American And European banks.
Few missiles and planes copied here and there are not going to make any country a super power.
China is the:
Largest creditor nation.
Largest manufacturing nation.
Largest exporter.
Largest foreign exchange reserves.
Largest gross savings.
Largest art market.
Largest PC market.
Largest smartphone market.
Largest LCD tv market.
Largest grocery market.
Largest Internet population.
Largest energy producer.
Largest energy consumer.
Largest coal producer.
Largest coal consumer.
Largest electricity producer.
Largest electricity consumer.
Largest steel producer.
Largest steel consumer.
Largest gold producer.
Largest iron ore market.
Largest copper market.
Largest automobile producer.
Largest automobile market.
2nd largest economy.
2nd largest importer.
2nd largest trading nation.
2nd largest luxury goods market.
2nd largest global investor (annual ODI).
2nd largest military spender.
2nd most billionaires.
2nd largest R&D spending.
2nd largest oil consumer.
2nd largest gold consumer.
2nd largest movie market.
3rd largest consumer market.
3rd largest total household wealth.
3rd most millionaires.
3rd largest e-commerce market.
3rd largest advertising market.
Have put man into space.
Have done spacewalk.
Have sent space lab.
Have done space docking.
Have beidou satellite navigation system.
Have sent man 7000km beneath ocean.
Have nukes.
Have ICBMs.
Have nuclear submarines.
Have shot down satellite.
Have used lasers to blind satellites.
Have our own 4th generation fighters.
Have done mid-course missile interception.
Have UNSC veto power.
Lend more money to developing countries than world bank.
Have topped PISA education tests.
Have 2nd most supercomputers in top 500 list.
Always in top 5 countries granted patents by WIPO.
Have 2nd longest road expressway network.
Have largest high-speed rail network.
Have longest bridges.
Have some of the tallest buildings.
Have 2nd most number of companies in Fortune 500 global list.
I could go on and on.
Try harder next time kid, much much harder.