1989 saw the most critical turning point in world affairs since the end of World War II. That was the time when the iron curtain came down and the cold war was finally at an end. When the hammer & sickle flag of communism was finally hauled down from atop the Kremlin a couple of years later, the United States was left as the world's lone superpower. That's how the situation has remained for well over a decade. Will America remain as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future? Or are we on the verge of another turning point in world affairs? Is another superpower getting set to emerge on the world scene?