America is currently waning..no doubt about it. We can’t even effectively confront and overpower 3rd world petty tyrannies in places such as Iran and North Korea…there is no longer the will to do so. Much less so, China. The Chinese win by default now because there is no longer even the pretense of a political will to oppose anything of their policies. Iraq/WOT is 2003 America, the last remnants of national self-interest and decent policy…2008 America is a completely different country…so much diminished in 5 years. So, worrying about dealing with China’s acedency isn’t on the radar because the ‘new’ leadership of the US (by popular will) is now preoccupied with implementing the US decendency.