The US has tried again and again these naively optimistic programs targeting “neighborhoods” and “the youth”, to no avail whatsoever.
The terrible reality is that the long-term prospects of a civilization are inexorably dominated by its demographics, and the demographics of the US are spiraling down towards disaster. We have exhausted the Flynn effect and our intelligence levels are declining. We continue to bulk-import millions of people with heritable intelligence levels below those required to sustain the level of civilization we have enjoyed in the past. Those segments of our population that produce enough wealth to sustain our political program are reproducing below replacement rate.
Unless we pull off a massive demographic reversal, which is probably impossible at this point, China is absolutely correct. The future of the US is, optimistically, Brazil, and pessimistically South Africa.