They rise and then fall. China is not in decline relative to the US. The US has not enjoyed a trade surplus since the 1980s. China is building its global trade and infrastructure- bullet trains across Asia and Europe- shipping ports globally, expanding its military forces, updating its submarines with Russian help. The CCP poliburo is composed of over 80% engineers. Russia, Iran and N.Korea now come under Chinas new e-Yuan CBDC international trade payments protocol and BRICS is looking like following. China is reverse engineering the wests banking trade payments hegemony that was originally imposed upon it via HongKong. Iran and Russia, selling discounted oil to China are mounting attacks on Europe and the Middle East. Meanwhile the USA is squabbling over woke and reactionary factions within and falling further into chaos.