China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline
It&#x27;s very hard to disagree IMO. The west <i>is</i> in decline and unless something catastrophic happens in PRC or war breaks out (also pretty catastrophic) I can&#x27;t see any future where the PRC isn&#x27;t going to at least become on par with the US soon but most likely it will succeed it as top dog. The only question in my mind is where do the EU end up in all this and if Russia will become closer with PRC or EU.<p>IMO the biggest failure in all this is that the opposition to PRC&#x27;s rise is the same old as we have seen before and it&#x27;s very clear that it will fail. As an outsider to both the US and PRC it looks to me like the US does all it can to shoot itself in the foot continually for whatever reason while PRC is playing on a totally different level. Maybe because US policy are mostly only until next election?