Decline or not, it might find a whole new lease on life by sidelining its Atlanticism and boldly betting on its Euro-Asian destiny.
His most powerful influence is the Eurasianists, who envisioned Russia as a unique civilization, neither European nor Asian, with its own "special destiny" and grandeur.
Still, whether demography is destiny, and whether Asians and Hispanics will join blacks as reliable Democratic voters, remains unclear.
On the other side, many whites and Asians are carrying out the cultural destiny of a Pacific Rim metropolis.
And the creation of the fund would send a signal that Asians were taking charge of their own destiny and no longer dependent on bail-outs.
It calls on Asians to take charge of their own destiny, and even, in part, to close the door to the West.
It tells the history of the largest Punjabi (or Panjabi, the more traditional spelling) community outside India and the pivotal role it played in shaping the destiny of millions of other Asians who came to Britain.
Surf Ninjas follows two teenage surfers from Los Angeles who discover that they are crown princes of the Asian kingdom Patusan and reluctantly follow their destinies to dethrone an evil colonel that rules over the kingdom.
"We would invest at a faster pace if we had control of our own destiny," says Matthew Westerman of Goldman's Asian unit.There are also more subtle barriers for foreign banks.
