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America as a brand, as freedom, the embodiment of the American dream, a country where most people would like to live, is in free fall. The country is mired in its internal conflicts and there is no one to show the way to recovery. In the best case, only internal bleeding can be stopped.
In the debate over the American presidential candidates, President Donald Trump, a Republican candidate, cut the image of his opponent, Democratic candidate Joe Biden, that when Barack Obama was vice president, the Chinese were invited to a free lunch. By doing so, he sought to increase the US foreign trade deficit with China during the Obama presidency, which strengthened the latter’s economy to the detriment of the former’s economy. He discreetly kept silent saying that this deficit had not decreased significantly during his reign.
However, the last four years have also brought new developments: American political culture has degraded and is now only a shadow of what it was before, thereby taking democracy as a brand deeply entrenched. Again, this brings water only to the mill of China, for in terms of political culture, political system, the secular outsider can see that the Chinese party-state system is no more disgusting than the mud-shedding American democracy.
In other words, Trump, whose behavior is inseparable from this deterioration, could say to himself that he invited the Chinese to a free lunch, and if they are re-elected, they will also be officers for dinner. With this pain, Edward Luce, an American writer for the Financial Times (FT), presents his article on the near future.
Measurable decrease
America’s decline is in part quantifiable. According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center polling company, less than a third of French and German people view the United States favorably. The UK’s 41 percent figure for the same is a record low in the history of the two traditional allies.
Trump’s separate indicator is even worse: Only 16 percent of the world’s population sees that the US president is doing the right thing. This is worse than Chinese President Xin Qing-ping’s 19 percent, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel with 76 percent. And this poll was conducted weeks before the September 29 mother-in-law debate.
The mismanagement of the coronavirus epidemic also contributes to the deterioration of the US image, which again is only confirmed with figures. The 210,000 death rate is five times the number of Americans who should have lost their lives based on the country’s population relative to the world’s population. Also, per capita is two hundred times the Chinese figure. The death toll is 28 percent higher than in Europe, although the Old Continent is much denser than the New World.
This is not entirely Trump’s fault, even though his administration did not develop the national strategy against the coronavirus, he himself ridiculed known defenses, distance and the use of masks, and terrorized the government’s scientific advisers. The American institutions, the competent authorities, also made a serious mistake by acting late and, in some places, making bad decisions under pressure from big business.
The defiant
According to a writer for an FT article, one indicator of the weak expectations for America is that Trump is being challenged by a 77-year-old man who is well past the peak of his life and career. Joe Biden is a deeply decent man. If he wins the presidential election, most liberal Europeans and Americans will have reason to celebrate. However, he would be far from young predecessors like John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama who were able to embody the dreams of the people.
His appearance as a presidential candidate narrows the horizons of the forecast from the beginning. It does not express the hopes of society, but simply promises to alleviate the damage the country has suffered so far. That is no small thing, of course.
The division remains
In the late September debate, the world was able to find another depth to American political culture. If the country is lucky, it will avoid a constitutional crisis in November, which could be triggered by Trump’s failure to acknowledge his defeat. Biden leads by a big difference, which partly explains why the president included the behavior of a pub teaser in the battle of words. According to the first opinion polls, this action was reversed. However, deteriorating re-election chances could make Donald Trump even more aggressive.
American society is expected to remain in a state of deep division for the foreseeable future after the presidential elections. China can be satisfied with any result of the vote. Perhaps Biden’s victory would be better because it would make the Washington government’s policies more predictable, while the Democratic president would not be in a position to restore the United States’ world power.
The election of Biden would ease the internal torments of the country, which Trump plays directly in the election campaign because he is confident that if he completely divides voters and believes he is a senile old man, he will end up with slightly more voters on his side than he does. of your opponent. and it keeps you in power. However, according to the author of the FT article, most of the relief Joe Biden can bring to America remains for the future-shaping successors.
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