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PS "tariff" is literally an Arabic word.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tariff

Should Trump be deported for using scary Islamic words? Discuss. 🤔

In any case, the whole world is laughing their socks off at you and going "Wtf are you smoking?". I hope you're happy.

China is loving this btw. 🥳

USA and UK left the chat. China is the next global superpower and you know it. Better start learning Chinese.

Every empire has its day, folks. The US Empire and US global hegemony are over. Oh well...

China may very well be the next super power, and we may become a second rate super power, fading into the sunset like the British empire. But China won't supplant us as long as the CCP is running the country. We've got a good long run ahead of us.

You reckon?

Have you ever read about the fall of the Roman Empire?

Trump is like your death throes lol.

The whole literal f**king world is just like WTAF. Apparently only you Yanks can't see that.

China will wipe the floor with you.

You're finished.

China is the new superpower.

The only reason you're still number 1 is simple: you have a stupidly big military and nukes and your military budget is like half of the entire world's military expenditure combined. (Who needs to help your citizens, eh?)

That's it.

Once the US loses its military hegemony (and soft cultural power tbf cos that counts for a lot too, and Hollywood and the English language counts for a lot too), China will be the new superpower.

You're hanging on by a thread.

Keep voting for nutjobs like Trump, and you'll speed this up. China is very happy.

Don't believe me. Keep doing what you're doing. I don't GAF. Make America Great Again haha. Stay in Delusion Land.

You forgot the Dollar. The USD is the Petro Dollar and the usual currency of world trade. Also many countries have holdings in US Treasury Bills. That's why, for example, the Euro did not replace the Dollar as a world currency as many claimed it would when it was new.

However, many have been shedding their US Dollar holdings. They can't just dump it because that would devalue it and they would end up losing. Haven't heard much specifically about it lately, but I did hear in 2017 that Euro countries - collective the biggest foreign holders of US Bills - had become net sellers instead of buyers of the Dollar. And that was over concerns about Trump. So imagine now.

Tbf I actually agree with you. Just messing around. I don't think China is gonna be the new global superpower any time soon, no. And I can't see any other major contenders right now. Unless it's a supranational bloc or something. Or some dramatic global event (like a major war or natural disaster) completely redraws the game board. Who knows if some completely new entity appears in the game that no one could've predicted.

But... US hegemony can't last forever. It will eventually end, like everything. The question is just when. Could be 100 years, could be 500. Could be 50. I think Trump might be speeding up that decline a bit though. Without US support, a lot of its allies in Europe and elsewhere are already regrouping and looking to strengthen ties elsewhere. There's a fair bit of talk about how the US under Trump is no longer the staunch reliable ally it once was and we'll need to reconsider our options slightly. In terms of economics, resources and even defence.

I expect Trump supporters are gonna vehemently disagree with me on that, and that more isolationist approach may be what they want anyway. But it's what I've seen being discussed.

As for the English language, I think that will probably remain the dominant global language even long after the political decline of the US, since it's become adopted as the main language of communication by so much of the world. (And I can't see Chinese (or rather its major dialects) taking over that role any time soon either, if ever.) Without the US though (or even with it) English could well morph into its own new thing as it establishes itself as the second language of much of the globe and second-language speakers end up vastly outnumbering native speakers. (I think that may already be the case.)

Then it will also one day fade away and be supplanted by another, but it's anyone's guess how long that will take. I don't think we'll be speaking English by the time we're at Star Trek level. (Or maybe we'll be speaking some future descendant of it, similar to how Latin evolved into Romance languages.)

#XiJumping

Why is my comment low rated, you dummies? You don't like dad jokes or sth?