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
It's also about Germany's ability to become the confident, world power that many of its allies want it to be.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 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
The 2008 Summer Olympics marked China’s rise as a world power.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 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
