Quote Originally Posted by Louis
China is not a world power. China is the world, and it's surrounded by a ring of tiny and short-lived civilisations like the Americas, Europeans, Mongols, Moghuls, Indians, Franks, Romans, Japanese, Koreans.
LOL. It must certainly seem so from Peking; buncha johnny-come-lately's.

For me: anybody who has nukes is a world power. Pop one off, and the rest of the world instantly pays close attention, and everything we thought we knew, changes; economy, military, politics... everything.

So, yeah: China = world power.