Sentences with phrase «superpower status»

The notion that China's headed for superpower status at the expense of the United States has been repeated so often that many in the West now take it as an undisputable fact.

One goes through a period of time where — and here I'm not trying to be pessimistic or jaundiced — where one thinks it is actually possible for leaders of superpower status like ours are to offer accurately blunt statements, and then one realizes that it is very unlikely that they ever will.

And we can see China now rising to superpower status on the back of its spectacular economic ascent.

There's more behind China's investment than simply wanting to show off its growing superpower status.

Something far worse than garden - variety human rights abuse is going on here, Gutmann concludes: «China, a state rapidly approaching superpower status... has, for over a decade, perverted the most trusted area of human expertise (i.e., medicine) into performing what is, in the legal parlance of human rights, targeted elimination of a specific group» (Ethan Gutmann, «The Xinjiang Procedure,» Weekly Standard, Dec. 5, 2011).

Here we talk about two books that chart the country's path to 21st century superpower status.

He put Australia singlehandedly on the path to superpower status in the surfing world when he rode his board in Freshwater Beach in Manly.

As the ad notes, the domestic energy revolution that has elevated the U.S. the energy superpower status is because of safe, advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, which have unlocked vast oil and natural gas reserves held in shale and other tight - rock formations.

Particularly galling for Pakistanis must be to see their rival accelerating towards superpower status while Pakistan drops ever closer to becoming a failing state.

Now is the time for China to put its technological and diplomatic skills on display in its quest for superpower status.

Britain's relatively rapid loss of its superpower status reached its logical conclusion during the Suez Crisis, when U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower persuaded Britain to withdraw by threatening to sell America's reserves of the pound — a move that would have sent the British currency into free fall.

There was a time, before the latest price crash, that the oil sands seemed like an unstoppable, little - questioned force of growth and expansion — Canada's ticket to superpower status.

Aspects of China's scientific culture make many «first - rate academics reluctant to return home to participate in the country's expected rise to superpower status.»