"The U.S. decline is an inevitable outcome of the structural problems the country has had over the years. If these long-standing problems cannot be completely uprooted, the decline of the U.S. will continue to be irreversible." globaltimes.cn/content/120715…
"...Nonetheless, Obama is troubled that adversaries have seen the U.S. weakened instead of spending more time and energy on figuring out a way to fix the problems. Such mentality of U.S. elites will push the U.S. decline further..."
"...The U.S. does have an adversary, and it is the U.S. itself. But American elites often overlook that. In the past, the U.S., relying on its strength, has created contradictions around the world to shift people’s attention, so it managed to cover up the accumulated unsolved..."
"... problems. However, the U.S. trick of playing a hegemon no longer works. The world has been on a fast lane of development while the increasingly conservative U.S. is being caught up and even surpassed by others..."
"...In addition to the systematic structure that is too rigid to be reformed, the U.S. is now saddled with financial burdens as well as racial and class conflicts that see rare, if any, hope of a solution..."
"...Under such a heavy burden, the U.S. is barely able to conceal its fatigue, let alone participate in international competition..."
"...The failure in the epidemic fight has put these problems under a microscope. The rest of world has thus focused on how the U.S. — deemed the “beacon of democracy” — is running down."
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