“China, in short has the potential to be considerably more powerful than even the United States.”

—  John Mearsheimer, book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 10, Great Power Politics in the Twenty First Century, p. 398

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