quickly approaching role as world's foremost economic superpower. Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large, said "a recent study by the economist Angus Maddison projects that China will become the world's dominant economic superpower much sooner than expected - not in 2050, but in 2015."Entitled "You have seven years to learn Mandarin," Colvin posited China, king of cheap imports, will soon overtake the United States in "technology, brand building, [and] finance." Colvin said if the U.S. finally bows to China as world economic superpower it will end a "125-year run." Who was the world's No. 1 economy before the United States assumed the crown in 1890? China, of course.
