At INFOWARS, Michael Snyder offers a blunt assessment of how the U.S. is slowly losing economic security to China.  In a hard-hitting op-ed, he offers 45 reasons why the U.S. is in decline. 

He prefaces by saying that just because the U.S. was once the most powerful nation on earth, this won't always be the case:

Every single year, hundreds of billions of dollars leaves the United States and goes to China.

This enormous transfer of wealth has had a dramatic effect on both countries.  In case you haven’t noticed, many of our formerly great manufacturing cities such as Detroit are rotting away while shining new factories and skyscrapers are going up all over China.  If you go into any major retail store today and start turning over products, you will find that hundreds of them have been made in China and that very few of them have been made in America.  As a nation, we buy far, far more from China than they buy from us.  As a result, China is absolutely swimming in cash and they have been looking for things to do with all that money.  One thing that China has done is loan the U.S. government over a trillion dollars and this has given the Chinese a tremendous amount of leverage over us.  China has also started to buy up businesses, real estate and natural resources all over America.  This kind of “economic colonization” is similar to what China has already been doing in Africa, South America and Australia.  The formula is actually very simple.  We send them our money and then they use it to buy us.  With each passing day China’s ownership over America grows, and it is frightening to think about where all of this could end.

Read Snyder's full list of 45 troubling items.