Many people in America (especially but not only neoliberal Libertarians) don't seem to like facing the reality that this article articulates. The sheer arrogance and sense of entitlement and USAs extraordinary privilege has made itself its own worst enemy. The nation state and the quality and integrity of its government is huge, perhaps the single largest determining factor in the wealth of nations. Sadly corporate lobbyists and their Bullshit neolib/Libertarian narrative have infeacted western democracies- owning governments dominating public dialogue- now the truth is becoming inconvenient- that Chinas mixed economy where the politburo direct capital allocations toward strategic supply chains and technology has out done western capitalism at its own game. DEAL WITH IT or lose the hegemony, wealth and dominance western civilisation has enjoyed for the last 500 years!