by Anil Machado

Created on: January 30, 2009   Last Updated: January 31, 2009

Nations have risen and fallen throughout history. Inevitably USA will loose its supremacy, just as the British empire lost its status at turn of 19th century. Skepticism are high on predicting China, India, unified Europe or maybe in the Middle East Iran. Nevertheless, the list is long and overwhelming with some nations growing economically or even the third world countries. However, as a result of Global Economic and Political crises, today Europe seems to stand much more stronger then USA and also in giving away money towards development aids. Today to have military strength or global firepower does not make a nation likable in the world. On the other hand China and India have the gains such as geographical area, population, military strength, steady economic growth and natural reserves. Still these two countries will only remain as influence nationally or regionally. China and USA economies are so interlinked and inter-depended that the collapse of US will follow a downturn in the Chinese economy. There are growing fears in Chinese communist regime that it wont be too long when the Chinese decide to free themselves from these shackles of communist chains. Therefore, the chances of China being a superpower will only look attracted from Asian point of view. India has been recently termed as being the next superpower, but much of India remains under the poverty line, religious fanatics, communal violence, insurgency, violation of human rights, inter-state differences, high corruption rate and no strong political leadership. Just by leading in IT sectors and sustaining financial market in the metro cities doesn't decide the strenght of the entire nation. Apparently, as a nation India cannot protect its geo-political sovereignty from its neighbors such as China, Pakistan and Bangladesh. So I presume that India has a long way to go in order to strengthen its administration and government control within India as a nation or else Indians will be basking on their economic glory of last 10 years and destroy its future by not taking a drastic change. Iran also seems to look quite strong in the Middle East and also internationally it can speak tough with US but that doesn't make Iran superpower in making, just because it raises its voice against US. The Iranian society is a closed one, high on human rights record, focused on religion extremism. Just by having natural resources one cannot become a superpower but in the short run can only have an upper edge in terms of

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