Our having China produce a huge majority of our goods no longer manufactured here, has brought us down as a global economic power.
The US dollar is failing, debt is off the charts.You're surprised Brics has come about to challenge global economic power? There has been an effort for several decades to replace the US dollar as the reserve currency......so Brics are doing what's been discussed for some time.
Your worry should be with our debt. Now it's closing in on 30% of our GDP......and we have to borrow money to make our credit card payments.....cool, huh?