Katty Kay: Trump’s Leadership Has Toppled America’s Standing; China Now ‘Preeminent Power’

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KAY: “But more damaging perhaps, and I reached out to people in Moscow and China overnight, was how America’s adversaries were looking at what was happening on Capitol Hill yesterday. Already America’s standing in the world is much diminished, Joe, because of the country’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic. But yesterday, I think we really saw the acceleration of the shift of power away from the United States of America, and it was indisputable that the last century was America’s century. I think after the events of the last year and the events of the last 24 hours, a lot of people are watching China now and thinking China is going to accelerate the process of taking power in the world and we’re going to look at a century in which China and not America is the world’s preeminent power. What you saw yesterday was not just the storming of the Capitol, it was emblematic for America’s adversaries and America’s allies of so much of the problems in this country at the moment. The racial injustice, the deep divisions, the political turmoil, the bitterness, the inability to get things done. It was all on display in those images which were beamed right around the world. All through China, all through Russia, they were watching what was happening yesterday."