world power
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Xi has drawn one lesson from the Soviet Union’s collapse above all: Moscow’s economy was too narrow—dependent on a handful of industries such as steel, energy and weapons—to sustain a world power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
The other world power which has a stake in South Asia is China.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
His Majesty’s Surge has “nicked” a spot on this week’s list to give an update on the Merry Land of Britain, an ancestral world power.
From Slate ● May 25, 2024
For more than 200 years, peace conferences have not only resolved conflicts but regularly signaled the arrival at stage center of a new world power.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2023
Similarly, America's emergence as the dominant world power in the 1940s could never have occurred if the United States had not established stable national institutions at the start that permitted the consolidation of the continent.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
