The Chinese Century is a neologism suggesting that the 21st century may be geoeconomically or geopolitically dominated by the People's Republic of China, similar to how the "American Century" refers to the 20th century and the "British centuries" to the 18th and 19th. The phrase is used particularly in the assertion that the economy of China will overtake the economy of the United States to be the largest in the world. A similar term is China's rise or rise of China.