Struggle for Superpower

When reading through Thursday, July 3rd's newspaper I came across an article on China becoming the world superpower. I remember talking about the shift between powers throughout history and this article mentioned several concerns regarding the shift. Because China is expected to be the most powerful to ever dominate, the public is weary. Technologies have allowed for people to see into the growing wealth and power creating unease in the ways China Chooses to act. The concern over world influence is established because China chooses to act in a way benefiting the government instead of the international "good". The choice to support Sudan instead of Darfur (ethnic slaughter) creates a public concern. It is seen that human rights are overlooked allowing the economy to rise about. Some see this situation as modernization. The article states the critical thoughts are propaganda by the West. This thought very well could be true because the West does not want to give up its power. The entire issue is about the struggle to hold onto power, and it seems to be as though as long as people (societies throughout the world) are continuing to form opinions based on what the news is telling them, their thoughts will be controlled. Not until people begin to look beyond headlines and research for themselves will true knowledge occur. People say knowledge is power, but what happens when the knoweldge is false?