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“America is back,” President Joe Biden said this year, and the whole Democratic world breathed a sigh of relief. But in the face of the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan – Kabul a Saigon 2 – a ghostly voice whispers in our ear: what if America hadn’t returned? What if he never comes back? What would happen? Would we have the Chinese century? Is Europe the new leader of the free world? Or just the same old international anarchy?
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