the Decrease of the U.S. iInfluence is a Long Term Trend.

--Wu Xinbo, Vice President of FDDI 

When powerful leaders are continuously emerging now in the international society, the leader of the only superpower in the world is in an unprecedentedly weak status, however. To a great extent, the weakness also reflects the complexity that the U.S. is facing toward external challengers and the change of the international status.