China surpassed the USA

[Thumpalumpacus]

United States has not fallen.

We're working on it.

The second-person pronoun includes the speaker ... just sayin'.

[Zidneya]

United States has not fallen.

We're working on it.

Who's "we"?

And do "we" have vacancy?

[bladevalant546]

The Chinese figured out that communism doesn't work so they resorted to capitalism. Now the USA is number 2 in the world economy.
finance.yahoo.com/news/china-just-overtook-us-worlds-090801574.html

Considering they have 4.5 times as many people as we do, and their people seem quite industrious and rather clever, I think the shocking thing is not that their economy is now finally bigger than ours, but that ours had somehow managed to remain bigger than theirs for this long.

Alas, it is natural flow of time countries riset and fall.

United States has not fallen. Size of economy is not everything. There is also the sophistication, agility and efficiency of the economy, which the US still remains considerably ahead. It would likely still be several decades before they come close. There is also the trmemdous geographic advantage enjoyed by the US. The United states is not tightly surrounded by other powerful countries deeply interested in our downfall. China is. There is no feasible way for China to match America's trendous geographic advantage.

It more about historical cycle that countries shift positions. It more a blanked statement that I assumed most understood. Obviously nowadays countries are FAR more complex considering globalization and many other factors. I do not disagree with anything you said.