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Old Wednesday, October 04, 2006
sara_khan
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Default All Super Powers not 4ever

I dont think v are capable of or need to control or contain a super-power.However,if we look into history,no super-power has ever remained eternally so till date.In recent history of 17th to 20th century, how many great powers came and crumbled,the great powers on whose colonies the sun never set.

Some great powers crumbled down due to internal factors like Soviet Union and others due to exhaustion of their resources in the face of other powerful enemies i.e Hitler's Germany.If we look in this perspective then we see that already the US who has been sole super-power only for over a decade is getting weaker day by day both internally and externally.Economically it has over 200 billion dollars trade deficit annually only with China.The land of the equality of opportunies is facing worst ever gap between haves and have-nots within itself in recent days.Hence labour protests etc have balooned up.While Militarily it has yet to hunt few fugitives most wanted despite being on the ground where they are hiding.

In the present day global politico-economic scenario which is changing fast each second and in this super-atom age,its really very very difficult to sustain the title of sole super power for say 30/40 years.

Even many Americans today believe that they were far far better when they were holding to "Isolation Policy" till Ist world war.In nutshell I believe that We dont need to do anything to control a super-power but have to wait when it itself crumbles down like a big elephant who can't even hold itself standing firm on the ground.

Ms.Hina you said that Japan after being bombed has now emerged as a big power technologically and economically.On the other hand you should know that America herself let Japan emerge as a technology and economy power in order to make it counter-heavyweight to China.Even today it has thousands of US soldiers and few bases there.The Japanese got first constitution even drafted by American General Eisenhower in 1945 after her surrender.

The US still wants Japan to take over particularly Asian markets from China.Only a decade back,we felt pride in having Japanese technology devices and see how Chinese goods have now flooded and are in demand in almost all third world countries where lies the lowest figures of Purchasing power parity.China is of course playing a great part in turning the world from geo-strategic issues and conflicts to geo-economic and fair-competitive issues and thats why its there and becoming more and more stronger day by day.Hope you got the point.
Maa salam
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