User blog comment:Toby2/Is this the century of Asia?/@comment-32656-20130531070518/@comment-32656-20130609061803

That is how you read that?

We are only thirteen years into the century. People have been saying such things would be the case "in only a few years" for a long time. Don't buy the hype.

Other large countries in the "third world" like Brazil are doing equally as well.

"Asian century?" You also hear "African century" or "American Century" (as in South America) just as often. What it ends up being, and why, is very debatable. Could end being none of these. Who knows? None of us can predict the future.

Who knows what could happen by 2050, let alone later than that. Especially when two countries that are, quite frankly, less stable than the US and do not like each other are involved.

The USA at this time is a hyperpower. It will be a superpower for a very long time to come. Not "like the UK" at all.

When these other nations get built up, you'll have a world more like the situation prior to WWI again.