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Lesson Eleven Is America’s new declinism for real 1. What is the difference between the latest global trends report and the one issued four years ago? The latest report foresees world in which the US plays a prominent role in global events，but the US is seen as one among many global actors. The report issued four years ago had projected continuing US dominance. 2. What does new declinism mean? It means that Americans，especially the intellectuals，think that America is in decline. They have lost the aggressive confidence of the Bush years and the unipolar moment. It is new because there were times in US history when people had similar thoughts. 3. What are the reasons of the new declinism? There are three reasons：First，the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made it clear that US military supremacy does not automatically translate into political victory. Second，the rise of China and India suggests that America’s days as the world’s largest economy are numbered. Third, the financial crisis has fed the notion that the US is living beyond its means and that something is badly wrong with the American model. 4. What does William Wohlforth of Dartmouth College think of the new declinism? He pointed out that America may recover from the new declinism just like before and there may be a resurgence of American confidence. 5. Why does the writer think that the new declinism may be more soundly based than the previous ones? Because he thinks that China may pose more challenge to the US than the Soviet Union and Japan since it has a large size and a record of sustained and dynamic economic growth.. 6. What do you think of America抯 decline? And China抯 rise? Open s Lesson Fifteen Libby Defense Portrays Client as a Scapegoat 1. For what was I. Lewis Libby charged? Mr. Libby was charged for perjury and obstruction of justice because he was considered to have lied to investigators. He was charged with five felony accounts of lying to the grand jury and to officials of the Fe