Assess to what extent China can claim to be a superpower
China is a BRIC, or emerging, country and is challenging the USA for superpower status1) Economically low cost labour - cheap manufacturing costs - can outpace US companieslarge volume of exports - US relies on Chinese exportsBUT --relatively poor education which limits the knowledge sector - limits to economic advancementslarge amount of TNCs - economic leakage2) Demographicslargest population - large labour force (helps to keep labour costs low)BUT --ageing population due to one child policy (recently been lifted to two children)low immigration levels - these levels need to be increased for the current labour force to be maintained due to the low rate of natural increaseTherefore we can see that China's strongest claim to superpower status is through their economic power, which is important but not significant enough on its own to award them this status
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