Hi and thanks for the invitation Let me ponder my wiki plate THE PROBLEM we face here is the way the media throws around the word superpower per category of influence see the article in The Economist they cited An economic superpower and now oil too Superpower isn t the magic word it used to be The other issue is of course the word potential In infinite time anything is possible potentially NOTE Breaking that section out as a separate article is really the heart of the problem Once you get away from the page which attempts to clarify what superpower means it s harder to argue against e g prestigious magazine headlines But will ponder what to do about this