well...when the president of an undisputed superpower bows to your dictator, i suppose you can call yourself a superpower.
Well, Madeline Albright and other Dims and leftists have expressed how uncomfortable they are with only one superpower in the world, but it still seems China falls far short of that status expect in the eyes of leftists like Obama and his predecessors. Some of them are just trying to feel better and to relive themselves, at lease emotionally, of the horror of the US being the only superpower.