Mr Summers has previously remarked on the tension between superpower status and net foreign indebtedness.

萨默斯此前已评述过美国的超级大国地位与净债务(外债)国身份之间的矛盾。

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But military prowess is not the only — or necessarily the most important — component of superpower status.

但是对于超级大国的地位而言，军事技术力量不是唯一的——或者不一定是最重要的组成部分。

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Understanding China's consumer culture is a good starting point for understanding the nation itself, as it RACES toward superpower status.

随着中国迅速迈向超级大国，理解其消费文化是理解这个国家的良好开端。

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America's allies sometimes imagine that America's superpower status has transformed it, or ought to have transformed it, into some giant disinterested force for peace and good.

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Mr. Laffer, chairman of Laffer Associates and the Laffer Center for Supply-Side Economics, is co-author, with Stephen Moore, of "Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status" (Threshold, 2010).

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If the world's only superpower turns inward or is unable to display leadership worthy of its status, that could have a negative effect on the world.

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