China's World Power Status

From this week's assignment:

With all that you have learned from these recent reports about China's current internal problems, do you think that its world power status should be reconsidered? Can China successfully overcome these difficulties to achieve such status on the world stage? Create a blog entry and post a comment to at least one fellow student's blog entry.

Despite its internal problems, China's status as a world power is, in my opinion, pretty much assured.

Unless there is some sort of catastrophic upheaval, the Chinese economy will continue growing and intertwining with the economies of other nations. The fact that they've managed to establish a manned space program makes a pretty good case that they should continue to wear the "World Power" badge.