US media: The world is witnessing the decline of the United States

The Washington Post website published an article entitled "The World is seriously treating the decline of the United States, we should also do this" on August 29. The author is Christina Embaba. The full text is as follows:

In the eyes of many countries in the world, the light of the United States has darken. We are still paying close attention and we are still a big country. But it is obvious that in many countries from Germany to Mongolia and from Ghana to Ukraine, the United States has become a microcosm of democracy decline and false information. U.S. citizens ignore reality, and American institutions are increasingly empty.

A friend working in the United Nations said to me, "I have considered immigration to the United States. But I can't imagine where I live in a place where my child has to participate in shooting exercises."

The most famous export products in the United States are Coca -Cola, "Levis" brand jeans and jazz, as well as "freedom", "civil rights" and "rule of law". Now, our most famous is the rampant gun violence and terrible campus shootings.

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At least 20 years, the reputation of the United States has been deteriorating. During the Iraqi war, when Bush's foreign policy was laughed at the world, American backpackers pretended to be Canadians abroad as Canadians to avoid laughing from new friends. This approach is now commonplace.

However, in the past six years, the deterioration of the US reputation has accelerated unprecedentedly. Our geopolitical opponents have always held "ammunition", but compared with the new embarrassment, the old embarrassment is nothing.

After the 2016 election, European leaders warned that it was no longer able to rely on the United States as a defense and security partner. Recently, the remarks made by the Ohio Senator Candidate Wans and others -such as "Honestly, I don't really care what happened in Ukraine" -the spread all over the world, and once again confirmed that the United States was as serious as ever as before. The exit of international exchanges and the "moral leadership" highland.

Our country is known for its "self -centered". Most Americans don't care what people think of Europe or other parts of the world.

But they should learn to care about others' thoughts. As the United States gradually declines, our competitors -seemingly unstoppable China, as well as unpredictable and aggressive Russia -being preparing to replace the status and influence of the United States.

In 2008, columnist Farid Zakaria wrote: "At the political-military level, we are still in a world of a single superpower. But in all aspects-industry, finance, education, society, culture- —The power distribution is being transferred, and they are gradually getting rid of the dominance of the United States. "In 2022, the vision of the" post -American world "has changed from theory to reality.

The world is taking our decline seriously. Now that we do this too.

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