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These depressing indicators—coupled with the rise of a confident 1 billion person India and China—have convinced the Obama administration that America is neither ‘exceptional’ nor able to assert its accustomed preeminent leadership. Decline, not American ascendance, is the administration’s buzzword, a pathology shared with the imploding welfare state of the European Union that can no longer afford the redistribution of wealth to its Mediterranean members.
The structure of sentence marked red is complicated and is difficult to understand for me.What does "American ascendance" mean? Is "Decline" or "American ascendance" the administration’s buzzword?
The structure of sentence marked red is complicated and is difficult to understand for me.What does "American ascendance" mean? Is "Decline" or "American ascendance" the administration’s buzzword?