如何抨击一个衰退的中国？

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David E Sanger, 如何抨击一个衰退的中国？纽约时报中文网, Aug 31, 2015
cn.nytimes.com/usa/20150831/c31chinapolitics/

, which is translated from

David E Sanger, Weakening Yet Still Aggressive, China Poses Test for U.S. Presidential Candidates. New York Times, Aug 29, 2015.

the first two paragraphs:

"For two decades, American politicians have been escalating their rhetoric about how to confront a rising China, one that grabs territory in the South China Sea, vacuums up American jobs and mounts cyber attacks on the United States.

"But now both Republicans and Democrats face a different challenge: how to deal with a weakening China, whose behavior may be as aggressive as always, but whose faltering market poses an entirely different threat to American investors, companies and workers — one that cannot be solved by sanctions, military buildups in the Pacific and threats of retaliation.

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest of the report.  "The report of my death was an exaggeration."  New York Journal, June 2, 1897, quoting Mark Twain. In my view, China was not as great as it made it out to be, and not as weak as the wishful thinking of some out of schadenfreude or professed orescience. It is true, though, China’s market is faltering, but for lack of (true) data, I have no way to know whether the phenomenon is transitory or longer-lasting
(ii) make out (v): " (transitive) to attempt to establish or prove   <he made me out to be a liar>"
www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/make-out