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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)