Washington's Delusion of Endless World Dominion.

Sure, China might be surpassing this country in multiple economic metrics and building up its military power, said Ryan Hass, the former China director in Obama's National Security Council, but it is not 10 feet tall. Similarly, Trump's State Department warned that Beijing harbored "hegemonic ambitions" aimed at "displacing the United States as the world's foremost power." Although China was clearly trying "to establish itself as the world's leading power", he added, America "still has the ability to more than hold its own in that competition", just as long as it avoids Trump's "trajectory of self-sabotage." "Across the ideological spectrum, we in the U.S. foreign policy community", two senior Obama officials would later write, "shared the underlying belief that U.S. power and hegemony could readily mold China to the United States' liking All sides of the policy debate erred.". [Extracted from the article]