watch out US, mBridge is here https://media.tenor.com/AQz3_zaiD14AAAAC/hysterical-laughter.gif

I have absolutely zero bias regarding China. I am simply speaking of the facts as they are, as opposed to as you (or I) might wish them to be. Dealing with reality is not biased. Avoiding and evading reality is. I do not argue the Chinese have not plundered western intellectual capital for decades- and very successfully. Nor do I argue that on its rise 'the west' was any more principled or compliant with the dictates of previous empires. Look at history and Britains seizing and plundering of India and many many other nations- look at The Opium Wars!, and look at Americas establishment upon the murder of indigenous Americans and subsequent hegemony over the 'Banana Republics'. Rising Empires are bold and confident and ignore the property rights of legacy holders- this is how they rise! You, like Trump, are just a sore loser and cannot deal with what is happening and I have some sympathy for that, but it is a biased and tragic head in the sand position to take and does not protect or preserve your best interests- it endangers them. I too live in a western liberal democracy and my position is also potentially substantially undermined by what is trending - but denying what is happening never prevented history from following its course.

Is the US Empire in its Decline Phase?

No, still strong 20.0% Don't care 14.3% Maybe, depends on Bitcoin adoption 14.3% It’s collapsing 51.4%

Western fund managers have been desperate to get in to the Chinese capital markets- Blackrock took a massive hit in the Evergrande debacle. https://www.asiamarkets.com/evergrande-downgrade-forces-blackrock-and-other-institutions-to-write-off-billions/ The Chinese have played the wests crony capitalists and won the trade war. The transition toward Chinese dominated capital markets has already begun because the Chinese economy is the most productive fastest growing strongest economy in the world. This transition will be different to that which occurred when Britain handed hegemony over to the USA- the Jewish bankers who have controlled western banking for centuries will not be in control any longer. How China operates will be probably be qualitatively different in character to how the Jewish bankers has controlled monetary systems for centuries. What is silly is that you think USA can continue operating a massive and chronic trade and fiscal deficit much longer- it cannot. Trumps actions acknowledge this. Any basic understanding of debt servicing capabilities and US dependency upon USD seiniorage and the tipping point where hegemony flips very rapidly into insolvency understands US empire is facing imminent crisis. The $8 Trillion in USTs that need to be rolled over before Christmas is the immediate concern- interest rates are double what they were 3 years ago. Longer term there is no apparent way the decline can be turned around. China has won the trade war and most other functions of empire flow from operating a trade surplus and having increasing capacity to project power- which China has, while US capacity and viability to project power is in obvious decline.