I’VE ALREADY MENTIONED FAREED ZAKARIA’S NEW BOOK, and comments on it by Lexington Green. Now here are some more thoughts worth reading, from Ross Douthat and Jim Manzi, who comments: “U.S. share of global economic output (on a purchasing power parity basis) has declined very slightly over the past twenty years – from about 21% to about 20%. But what has really happened over this period has been the rise of China and the rest of non-Japan Asia at the relative expense of Western Europe and Japan.”