In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. the U.s. Will Be Irrelevant
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In the bigger picture - you could argue that China should have dominated the world for the past 2+ millennia. The real barriers to their ever doing so are internal - not in America. Nor nor Europe. Nor somewhere else.
(None of which prevents America from sabotaging itself into irrelevance, BTW):