The usual silliness of the "declining superpower...yet you correctly conclude that the success was in Pi's placating Trump. As horrible as Agent orange is as a man, to in any way pretend that China ..or anyone else is about to overtake the US as a power is just fanciful. The Russians can invent...but as usual have no money to build. The Chinese can steal..F-35) ..but still can't build. The US is so far ahead it is blinding....at least to this author