The problem is that China is just now building those links. Brazil and Turkey have their links already in place (and fairly well cemented in history). That sai

The problem is that China is just now building those links. Brazil and Turkey have their links already in place (and fairly well cemented in history). That said, I do see China (or some agglomeration of China + US) being a world power for the next generation – probably at least for the majority of Jim Rogers daughter's lifetime – but their trajectory doesn't look much better than the US's...it's just a bit more delayed. (Though, China's impending demographic crisis, depending on how bad it gets, could really bring all that down much sooner.)