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In the 1970's Japan was expected to do the same.
They'd return as an even greater menace, an economic powerhouse, slithering between our fingers and dominate the rest of the world economically and therefore politically.

That's the time of Blade Runner's conception, when it was believed in the near future it wouldn't be impossible to see a the US's west coast Asianized to the point it might as well be Tokyo.
Now Japan has stagnated and is unlikely to be anything the 1970's expected it to be. Expectations haven't been met, at all.

All this "China is the world power of the 21st century" is laughably short sighted.
China has faced two tendencies in its history. One of centralization and one of fragmentation.
It has been fragmented as much as it has been united.
The Communist Party is in constant crisis management. Not so much now over its development ( although it is slowly but surely showing cracks ), but about its image domestically. The constant censoring of any message coming abroad about itself, signifies a deep insecurity. They're one of the handful of nations that blocks Facebook and Google for Christ's sake. Most dictatorships don't give a fuck about it, because they know they're in the saddle... Chinese communists don't seem so confident.

So no. Let's wait and see.
Russia shows a martial culture unlike any other of the developing nations. World history has proven that in the long run this matters much more than any 'growth' ( which in nowadays economic system is just a collapse in waiting ).
Chinese men are pussified mostly and the women are going through their own sexual revolution, without a moral backbone to keep it all in check ( thanks Cultural Revolution ).