The decline of America’s leadership
The HinduThe traditional strengths of America are its values platform, its military power, its pivotal position in the global financial system, and as a technology pioneer. This is contradicted by authoritative commentators such as Ian Bremmer, Laura Kuenssberg and Andrew Whitehead with former U.S. President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden in the race for a second presidential term. Ferguson adds that in purchasing power parity, China, in 2023, had an economy that was a fifth larger than that of the U.S. To him American problems were illegal immigration and deficits in the rule of law, secondary education, public health, new technologies, and the national debt rising to $32 trillion. American soft power, such as its entertainment industry, which is non-government and unregulated, balances some negativity, as do enduring alliances in Southeast Asia and Europe, though U.S. complicity with Israel’s violence against Palestinians has scrambled all its pre-existing policies in West Asia. Whether or not the U.S. remains “the indispensable nation”, as former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright termed it, India should develop an advantageous relationship with America while keeping in mind its deficiencies.