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The 2010s (pronounced "two thousand (and) tens" or "twenty-tens") is the current decade of the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2010, and will end on 31 December 2019.
In the English-speaking world, a name for the decade has never universally been accepted in the same manner as for decades such as the '80s, the '90s, etc. Common suggestions for referring to this decade are "Teenies" or "Teens" but generally the most used term is "Twenty-tens".
China was increasingly called a superpower in the early 2010s, including at the 2011 meeting between Hu Jintao and Barack Obama. China overtook the US as the world's largest trading nation, filing the most patents, expanding its military, landing its lunar rover Yutu on the moon, ending the nearly four-decade malaise of lunar exploration and creating China's Oriental Movie Metropolis as a major film and cultural center. China was projected to have the world's largest economy by 2018 with an estimated GDP per capita equal to the US by the late 2050s.
In America, migration declined to its lowest level since tracking began in 1948.
Political polarization increased as conservatives and liberals clashed over the role of government and other social, economic and environmental issues in the West. In the United States, polls showed a divided electorate regarding healthcare reform, immigration, gun rights, taxation, job creation, and debt reduction. In Europe, street movements protesting the increasing numbers of refugees from Islamic countries have developed, such as the English Defence League and Pegida. There have also been increasing calls for egalitarianism including between the sexes.
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