

So the only question really is whether they’re arranging things so that as China becomes the clear world leader in the coming era, the US will be relegated to being a bankrupt has-been, clinging to outdated technology nobody else wants any more because their explicit goal is to destroy the US or just because they’re some stunning combination of corrupt and stupid.
I lean toward the latter, but can’t entirely discount the former.
Meaning is subjective and not intrinsic, so there can be no such thing as “the” meaning of anything.
The artist can have an intended meaning, but the audience not only can but will find their own meaning in it. It might be the case that the audience gets the same meaning from it that the creator intended, but it might just as easily be the case that they get some entirely different meaning from it.
None of them are right or wrong - that’s not even a coherent concept in that context. They just are whatever they are.