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james carroll

Not No. 1? US can gain from balance of power

By James Carroll

 |  Globe Correspondent  

A recent intelligence estimated yielded a lot of downbeat headlines about American decline. But while politicians of all stripes still compulsively promote the image of America’s God-given world-historic supremacy, this is the wrong way to look at the world. And when China eventually emerges as the world’s largest economy, it won’t mean global domination for Beijing. It will mean America’s values and priorities won.

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