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With the century of humiliation, it wasn't just the common people who were humiliated, it was everyone. It was a total national failure. But neoliberalism has been the dominant economic force in the world for decades. China was never like that between the opium wars and 1949
Well, to be fair. Most of the global south also got colonised during that time, so "humiliation" was the dominant global state of affairs at the time.
Still, this is mostly just a humorous observation. I wouldn't say that the Chinese century of humiliation lines up with the decline of the American empire. Just that there are some similarities (which is the basis of scientific investigation)