Is Trump America’s First Post-Unipolar President?
Foreign Policy Live
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 1:10.6 | So we often talk about whether China is ever going to surpass America in terms of geopolitical |
| 1:16.9 | power. And this is in part a debate about the metrics you choose to focus on and how you project |
| 1:24.1 | data and trend lines into the future. But it's increasingly clear to me that |
| 1:29.1 | there's one other important factor to keep in mind. Countries around the world are already |
| 1:35.6 | acting like there's some sort of shift underway, like the American unipolar era might be ending, |
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