> If the US economy is weaker, while other economies are getting stronger, our influence in the world will be impacted (economically, militarily, culturally).

> If the US economy is weaker, while other economies are getting stronger, our influence in the world will be impacted (economically, militarily, culturally). To many people, that's a feature, not a bug. (The CCP being one of them, of course. The implications of domestic powers aligning with the CCP are left as an exercise for the reader.)