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Terry Glavin: As Trump's America steps back, Xi's China moves in

The U.S. has been in geopolitical free fall, while China exerts its influence abroad

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Among the many disorienting upheavals in global trade and international relations since U.S. President Donald Trump’s first inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017, there is a single dominant trend line: the expansion and consolidation of the global reach of the People’s Republic of China, and the decline of the United States as the lodestar of the world’s democracies.

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The pattern continued mostly without interruption during Joe Biden’s presidency, but after Trump’s re-election in November 2024, the U.S. went into geopolitical free fall.

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There’s been a great deal of highbrow speculation about whether this state of affairs is merely a morbid interregnum or the irreparable “rupture” that Prime Minister Mark Carney has described, heralding the Beijing-led “new world order” that he appears to look forward to.

Either way, the U.S. is no longer central to strategic planning among the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, either as a source of military hardware or even as a reliable ally. It is no small matter that in the wake of........

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