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

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