Is China now the dominant superpower?

[arsenal]

Christian: Well you're certainly right that I have no background in science or engineering but I'm not sure your knowledge of the humanities is well grasped either. Just compare the first mobile phones, computers, cars, planes, ships, submarines with those that were built a relatively short time later. You are right about China apeing the west but then you have to remember that the China of today is only about 40 years old. China is still the only country in the world that has a commercial, fully working maglev and the possibilities with that technology are awesome. They even managed to build a train line across the Tibetan plateau which is like concrete in the winter and not to mention the highest train in the world using some quite ingenius solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jgt...o&spfreload=10

You wrote:
"We are doing renewable energies in Germany, and have difficulties to manage storage, supply and demand, transport. If we have difficulties, how are the Chinese going to manage?"

That's rather an egotistical thing to write. Germany has given the world an endless supply of high quality consumer goods especially cars and domestic appliances but in energy you're some way behind many countries including The UK.

Watch a few videos on youtube about the things China has built recently and a few more about things that are planned and you'll see that rather than playing catch up China is actually leapfrogging ahead more than you might realise.

[christianpfc]

China is still the only country in the world that has a commercial, fully working maglev and the possibilities with that technology are awesome. They even managed to build a train line across the Tibetan plateau which is like concrete in the winter and not to mention the highest train in the world using some quite ingenius solutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jgt...o&spfreload=10

The maglev (magnetic levitation), wherever it was invented (Leonardo da Vinci or even earlier invented the airplane, but couldn't build one), it was developed and built in Germany as Transrapid. We have the best scientists and engineers of the world, but our politicians (Adolf Hitler an exception) are as incompetent as everywhere else, and for political reasons it was not built on a large scale in Germany, but exported to China where it was finally built on a large scale.

The Swiss built their railway network under similar conditions, same for the Transsib, and all that 100 years ago!

A friend just stopped in Bangkok on the way back to Germany from a business trip in China, visited some factories who do textiles, all German and Swiss sewing machines!

[Moses]

for political reasons it was not built on a large scale in Germany, but exported to China where it was finally built on a large scale

In fact - there was huge catastrophe at time of testing in Germany and after it project been canceled, while China didn't cancel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathen_train_collision