Has the world lost faith in the US?

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US dominance in world affairs may be in decline. Who will be the next superpower?

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[Elway]

You title question doesn't match your text question; or, if you will, you answer your question, and go on to ask an entirely new question, regardless of your title question.

The world is dumb. People "hated" America re: Bush, and "loves" America re: Obama. 90% of what comes out of Washington, D.C. comes out of Congress, and even with the Democrats controlling Congress for the last two years, the laws have been shit, and of no benefit to Americans, and all the "world" can do is worry about Bush, and applaud Obama.

The world will never "love" China as a superpower. They may respect it, but no one's trying to model their nations after China.

This use of the word. "faith" is an interesting one: The world probably has renewed "faith" in the USA, based on Obama's decisive victory. Citizens and world leaders are

Does any world leader, or has any open group of Europeans in the street, "applauded" China for what it's doing? Ha! Not a chance.

People applaud and have faith in Chavez, but notice, not Venezuela. Chavez really sucks at making HIS vision the NATIONS vision (removing the argument about nationalsim for a moment.)

China will become or is becoming a superpower, but I don't know that anyone is expressing "faith" in China.

[ev]

What do you mean, was 'faith' placed in the US to perform a certain task or responsibility?

I don't think it is a matter or who will be the worlds next superpower, the economic potential of the new centers of economic growth (countries such as BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China along with many others that have the potential for great economic growth such as Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc.) will inevitably be converted into political influence and will strengthen multipolarity.

What we will see in 30 years time will be the decline in US dominance in world affairs and the strengthening of a multipolar political sphere of influence, this is undeniable and will happen. How the US deals with this is up to the US elected representatives and what they want to do to try to maintain their sphere of influence, I suspect International institutions/organizations influenced or operated by the US will be turned into vulgar instruments designed to promote the foreign policy interests of one or a group of countries in that sphere. We have already seen something similar to this with the OSCE & NATO.