The whole conversation over China's rise versus America's suicide is very interesting. It isn't truly that China won, although state capitalism is superior and high IQ han dominance guarantees a prosperous society. It's that the legacy of JFK'S immigration bill has finally come home and the United States is deeply divided and Sick.
Trump is a great leader, harkening back to a prosperous time when America had cultural dominance. But the population he rules increasingly does not resemble people like him. It's fractionalized by race politics coded as leftism, widespread drug addiction, apathy and cynicism. In a normal political cycle pre replacement, he would be considered a stellar president ushering in a dynamic and ambitious America. Instead he hovers at 40%, his followers are attacked by insane transgender communist terrorists, when he tries to clean up the cities they riot, and when he starts a war which has always been the prerogative of power he nearly loses his mandate. The economy has slumped, people despise their Savior, and a perfectly normal presidential cycle candidate is treated like the devil.
It's a stunning contrast. China excelled at nothing, it just studied from the leading powers and retained sovereignty. The states, by contrast, turned towards a post national age under Biden and nearly dissolved as a Superpower. Time will tell if it can yet escape that fatal curse