The decline of US power?

Posted, 2015-07-10
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File - US President Barack Obama arrives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on April 26, 2014.

Nick Bryant New York correspondent 10 July 2015 From the section US & Canada Standing on the Washington Mall at the turn of the new millennium, it was impossible not to be struck by America's power and global pre-eminence. Victory in...

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