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Trump's fraught legacy in Asia
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US President Donald Trump attends Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota, on July 3, 2020.
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WASHINGTON - Outgoing United States President Donald Trump's defining global legacy in foreign policy is the reframing of his country's relationship with China - in effect forcing citizens of all nations to think about the prospect of a world dominated not by the US but by China.
Before the Trump administration, the question was deemed almost impolite to utter and certainly too blunt to be diplomatic.
