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China thinks America is declining but still uniquely dangerous It sees Trump as both symptom and accelerant of the decline As Donald Trump completed his first year back in the White House, a group of scholars in Beijing penned a report thanking the American president. Their gratitude was sarcastic, not an endorsement of Trumpian policy. But the sentiment behind it was genuine. Thank you, they wrote, to President Trump for driving away America’s traditional allies https://www.economist.com/china/2026/05/04/china-thinks-america-is-declining-but-still-uniquely-dangerous