Internationally, the combination of three wars in ten years with a serious domestic economic crisis has washed away post-9/11 sympathy and replaced it with disappointment, frustration and in some cases resentment of an America now often seen as a bully in decline. Vice President Joe Biden wrote in The New York Times that China’s leaders do not see America in descent, but if this is so the Chinese scholars one of us encountered in Beijing shortly after Mr. Biden’s visit there have not gotten the memo. Nor is this view limited to China.
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