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Potential superpowers
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Potential superpower.
The United States is currently the only country whose status as a superpower finds broad consensus, with some accounts explicitly calling it the only one. Since the mid-2020s, China has increasingly been referred to as a superpower in its own right (including by U.S. President Donald Trump). Brazil, the European Union, India, and Russia have been discussed as potential superpowers of the 21st century, while Japan was a candidate in the 1980s. In spite of the perceived decline of the United States, it remains a superpower primarily due to its alliances, military capacity, soft power, and economic influence and heft.