"Second Superpower" is a term used to conceptualize a global civil society as a world force comparable to or counterbalancing the United States. The term originates from a 2003 New York Times article which described world public opinion as one of two superpowers.
The term has also been applied by scholars to the possibility that the People's Republic of China could emerge as a "second superpower," with global power and influence on par with the United States.
Read more about Second Superpower: Invention in Response To February 2003 Demonstrations, Popularization As A Description of Popular Opinion, Application To Internet-based Activism
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“Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.”
—John Lukacs (b. 1924)