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<li><p>I completely agree.</p></li>
<li><p>World power is not just economic power, it is more than that. While Russia’s economy is still trying to recover and switch over to capitalism, it still maintains political world power. </p></li>
<li><p>I agree with what you said for the most part, but I think you can’t just look strictly at GDP for China. Western and Eastern China are entirely different… western being farms… eastern mega-cities. Western China in a way pulls down China overall in appearance. If we were to just look at the GDP of western China and eastern China we would see that eastern makes up for almost all of the overall GDP. Not to mention China’s economy is growing at a staggering rate. And considering how much we have invested in China and vice versa, China (and India and Japan) certainly has more economic power to us than compared to the rest of the world.</p></li>
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