"A Chinese merchant lights a cigarette from an American soldier in the liberated city of Tengchun, Yunnan province. 10/14/1944"
TOM FOWDY: it is the "Anglosphere" – or "Five Eyes" countries, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom – that are more likely to face implosion or slow decline and stagnation
This is a 20th-century grouping that, in a 21st-century world, is never again going to be what it was. There’s enough evidence to argue that these countries are going to decline in terms of global prominence, status, and power.
KEVIN CARMICHAEL: the sun is about to set on the United States' eight-decade run as the world's dominant economy. By some measures that adjust for the value of currencies, China's economy eclipsed the U.S.'s in 2016. And it's close to universally accepted that China's will be the biggest by any measure within a decade.