I'd guess that they will see that US power and influence has hit a peak (thanks to Bush's wars and fiscal irresponsibility) and has started its decline. The fact that their politicians seem completely unable to agree on anything at all sounds like "fiddling while Rome burned". And they'll see that China under the benevolent proletarian leadership of the Chinese Communist (Capitalist) Party began its rapid rise to the top. Things were good in China as long as the economy grew fast (though there was increasing censorship, repression and corruption), but eventually growth tanked and things got ugly, fast. The calm before the storm perhaps?