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It is the wrong question:

There are lots of possible candidates for it, but communism ruined it all in China.

Anyway, left are:

1) Africa (don't underestimate it, it could grow much faster than any other country, iff it only could free itself from all those nasty colonialism consequences...)

2) Europe, united with all of its parts (and I mean especially the eastern ones)

3) Middle East + India; may seem strange (to some of you), but there you can find the top of the top of human-brewn Culture -- no other region on earth can beat this.

America, you have to "die" (read: take the last place on earth for some decade), because it was you trashing whole world in this financial disaster. This is not popular, so you people will not agree -- the same as children never agree when it comes to take some bitter medicine...

My grandmother (who's Chinese) used to always say "Communism! What Communism! Just take a look outside, you can clearly tell who's rich and who's not!"

China may be Communist by name, but it's capitalist by heart.

obviously...

Africa, is not a country.

> 1) Africa (don't underestimate it, it could grow much faster than any other country, iff it only could free itself from all those nasty colonialism consequences...)

Uhm... Firstly – Africa will never become a world power. Do you know how many problems Africa have? Most economies are shrinking. The countries whose economies grow are based on resources (e.g. oil) that foreign companies mine. There is not one sub-sahara African country with a good education system (the best is mediocre and rapidly declining education systems).

> y, iff it only could free itself from all those nasty colonialism consequences...)

You could blame the problems in the 70ies or 80ies on colonialism. But modern problems are created by Africans for Africans. I can cite numerous examples. Can you really blame Britain of Zimbabwe? Both Lesotho and Swaziland never had any major colonial influences – yet they are the most backward in Africa.

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