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The world falls apart as the US withdraws

The Western-led world order is in crisis. If the US re-elects Donald Trump, this will be terminal.

Martin WolfColumnist

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COVID-19 has not transformed the world, at least so far. But it has accelerated its development, technologically, socially and politically.

This has been strikingly true in international relations: the divide between China and the West and the failure of US leadership of the West have both deepened. The Western-led world order is in crisis. If the US re-elects Donald Trump, this will be terminal.

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Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the Commander of the British Empire in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”.

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