Less than a decade after the demise of the Soviet Union, the United States is a military and economic colossus.

Altogether, these new estimates suggest that China will not be the economic colossus in the next century that many experts have predicted.

She was stunned at the thought of the resulting economic and political colossus that was being created.

Look what the Black Blade Society has fashioned Japan into today: an economic and technological colossus of previously unimaginable clout.

TO the south, he has a problem in China, an economic colossus with about 500 times the population of Mongolia's 2.5 million inhabitants.

Although we are a "military and economic colossus," the experience of the last century is that we cannot go it alone.

The new mosaic also shows that the United States is no longer the undisputed economic colossus able to muscle other countries into line.

It demonstrated the might of the economic colossus that they have built from the ashes of World War II.

Vast amounts of geopolitical pundit-time go into thinking about how to deal with the looming emergence of China as a military and economic colossus.

French officials, chafing under what some of them call American "hyperpower," have long wanted to make Europe a political and military power as well as an economic colossus.