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US Grand Strategy, R.I.P.

America's post-war foreign policy grand strategy has been hollowed out and Trump's departure won't change that. China is not a sufficiently telegenic ideological foe to reanimate it.

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It is, in retrospect, easy to describe the American post-war foreign policy grand strategy.

It was in essence a twin anti-hegemon strategy - no dominant power in peninsular Europe or East Asia.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 27, 2020, with the headline US Grand Strategy, R.I.P.. Subscribe