Why America is no longer world`s ‘natural` leader
(WorldNews China)

I`m not interested The written rule is that the US president rules America, yet de facto the unwritten rule is that he rules the world. The world is made up of written and unwritten rules, and the latter are more important than the former. To forget about the unwritten by sticking to the written is ignoring the large and being trapped in the small (皆以明小物而不明大物也), as an ancient Chinese proverb puts it. Yet in the gap between de jure and de facto, there is a risky imbalance of representation. Americans vote for their president; non-Americans don`t vote for him but will suffer or enjoy the consequences of the American choice. Still they do take part in the public debate, and can have some...