NEWS FLASH!! (NYT WAKES UP!!)

So now, rather than bestriding the globe, we [as in NYT USA] are competing—and losing—in a geopolitical marketplace alongside the world’s other superpowers: the European Union and China. ... Many poor reagions of the world have realized that they want the European dream, not the American dream. ... Many of the foreign students we shinned after 9/11 are now in London and Berlin: twice as many Chinese study in Europe as in the US. ... More broadly, America controls legacy institutions few seem to want... Without firing a shot, China is doing on its southern and western peripheries what Europe is achieving to its east and south... The self-deluding universalism of the American imperium—that the world inherently needs a single leader and that American liberal ideology must be accepted as the basis of global order—has paradoxically resulted in America quickly becoming an ever lonelier superpower. NYTMag, 36, 37, 65