New Peripheries

Monroe doctrine is dead, Chinese government has world's highest approval rating, no-limits in the Asia-Pacific, American identity is Christian imagination

UPDATE: As the power of the U.S., which styles itself the "world's only superpower", is draining away, the hot wind of independence is raging across the vast land of Latin America which had been called the "tranquil backyard" of the U.S. for the past two centuries.

The Chinese government maintains strong support from the populace, with approval ratings c…