It's been a while since I took my geopolitics class, but I think most people that study geopolitics would claim that the USA is in fact an empire, and that Chin

It's been a while since I took my geopolitics class, but I think most people that study geopolitics would claim that the USA is in fact an empire, and that China and Russia are considered "great powers" and not superpowers. While China is still on the rise, it exerts dominating influence over a very large region and not quite globally.