• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    How was China not a superpower then?

    They were easily a superpower since before they were backing Vietnam and Korea in our shitty wars with them.

    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      China’s GDP was lower than Canada’s. Economic strength is not the only factor of a superpower, but it’s significant. It’s hard to project power effectively without sufficient wealth to fund those efforts.