'America in Decline' Narrative Finally in Decline?

[Blue3]

When it comes to China, many outsiders seem to forget they have a demographic time-bomb that will turn them grayer than Japan in only a couple decades, with a huge aging population and small younger population capable of working, due to the One-Child Policy. China isn't expected to grow much economically once that begins, maybe just 1-3% a year. It's neighbors are also severely distrusting of China (particularly in SE Asia), and they're all entering into alliance with the United States. There's no where for China to expand militarily into... squeezed between Russia and it's allied states, the allied states of America, and fellow rising superpower India.

India's population is still expected to grow, and its population and economy will be set to overtake China, but that will also lead to even worse overpopulation, pollution, and resource scarcity problems for them.

The United States really is in the best position, and will stay the top superpower (even if our economy by total GDP is eclipsed by China or India at some point).

[Blue3]

I like how the President refuted the idea of American decline in his inauguration:

This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our resolve and proved our resilience. A decade of war is now ending. An economic recovery has begun. America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it -- so long as we seize it together.