The European Union will be preoccupied with its own internal integration process. And China, where income per person is one-eighth the level of the US (adjusted for purchasing power parity), is simply too poor to become the new hegemony.
其次，全球领导力可能异常短缺。高负债率、经济低迷和经济模式声名狼藉可能削弱美国的实力。欧盟将主要关注其内部整合事务。而中国的人均收入只有美国的八分之一（经过购买力平价调整），它因为太过贫困而无法成为新的霸主。