Chinese leaders see America as "decadent, hollow, and in rapid decline", and speeches such as Rubio's "the temper tantrums of the dying throes of a once great power".
Do you think the people in that room had even a moment of uncomfortable selfawareness, or did they just double down on copium?
The foreign policy / soft power / diplomacy actions of the Biden and Trump administrations are hard to characterize as anything other than angry flailing being increasingly ignored or decried by nations who used to be wholly under the imperial thumb. I think dying throes might be a little premature but the decline and lashing out are already apparent.