The American Age Is Over

Even if the United States tries to revert to more of its earlier way of doing business, recent events suggest that its global reach will decrease. How the rest of the world will adapt to that change is hard to say. The American age may not give way to dominance by China, because that country has problems of its own and other states in Asia, such as India, are growing to balance it. Democratic nations that look after their own defense more diligently, rather than relying on American protection, might conceivably benefit.