 At the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, only the United States appeared to be a superpower.Alice Lyman Miller defines a superpower as "a country that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world, and sometimes, in more than one region of the globe at a time, and so may plausibly attain the status of global hegemony".China is now considered an economic superpower, a military superpower, a technological superpower, and an emerging global superpower.