This piece reads like a shot in the tribal warfare games the US politic is so fond of playing, from side that benefits from the answer being "no". If you measu

This piece reads like a shot in the tribal warfare games the US politic is so fond of playing, from side that benefits from the answer being "no". If you measure "decline" using GDP the answer is probably "no" for almost all countries, so it was a good straw man to shoot down. But if your is the relative position of your country to others then it's not so clear cut. My guess is identify of the USA is very much tired to be being the biggest fish in the pond. 30 years ago, that changing looked very unlikely. But it has been evident for a while economies of the historically poorer countries in Asia, such as China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia have been growing much faster than the USA's economy. The GDP of most OECD countries used to tower over them. Now, not so much. Short of war or AI unending things, in the near term China will surpass the USA, in the longer term perhaps India will do so as well. The unease the question "America's Is In Decline" triggers becomes understandable if you rephrase it as "Is America about to be pushed from the top of the heap"?