Forget the Rise of China, You Should Worry about the Fall of America

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January 12, 2021

Published in South China Morning Post
(Hong Kong) on 07 January 2020
by Alex Lo (link to original link to original)

Translated from by . Edited by .

France under Napoleon III, Britain under Winston Churchill, and Soviet Russia under Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t know they had already lost the empire until it was too late. The fate of the United States will not be any different.

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