IMO US still enjoys substantial militarily advantages over China, as well in terms of cultural influence. Economically, they are more or less on even terms.
I also don't believe China can be considered a superpower until it brings Taiwan under its control. You can't be a superpower when your no.1 adversary has troops stationed on your territory without your consent.
I would classify US as still a sole superpower, and China and Russia as regional powers, with China having a great potential to become a superpower in the future.
Lmao, the US supapowa can't even control their borders from cartels, drugs (often with precursor chemicals from China), guns, human trafficking, etc, and you talk about Taiwan. It is no coincidence that right-wingers talk so much about borders, they know how broken and deficient they are there.
Cartels control many border towns, crossing, official or 'gaps', etc. They do literally whatever they want and transport whatever they want (it could be spies, terrorists, literally anything, no one even knows for sure), with Chinese criminal groups helping launder their money. Imagine this being the reverse case on the Chinese border now lol, impossible.
Second, the US soft cultural appeal is dying to the woke agenda, imperialism, genocide support, and acting arrogantly when you are weaker, and global perception is more or less equal now, in some regions China leading in others the US. You don't have to estimate this subjectively, there were many polls already done and posted. - "From China, we get a hospital, from the US we get a lecture" type shit everywhere around.
Economically and technologically only if you add the entire West combined, assuming that the US has certain influence over them, could they be comparable to China, since, for example, China has produced more electricity than G7 alone since 2020. China leads in 57 out of 64 key global technologies, and Leiden rankings put it at 8 out of 10 top universities worldwide in scientific publications, among others. The same trends with patents, industrial and manufacturing power, high-tech exports, etc. Only assuming the US has great control over vassals are they still somewhat comparable. But, increasingly even that doesn't help anymore.
