David Murrin –
My book Breaking the Code of History published in 2009, highlighted that America was the last empire in a long series comprising what I called the Super Western Christian Empire, dating back to the 1400s, starting with the Portuguese. Based on my Five Phases of Empire model, I determined that America was the last of the Super Western Christian Empires and that from 2001, the US had entered a state of decline, the last of the five stages of an Empire.
Meanwhile in the East, China is the second comer to the Super Asian Empire and had been moving up the Five Stages of Empire curve, since the Boxer …