Banyan: Will China fill the vacuum left by America?
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America is creating a vacuum in global leadership. Does China really want to fill it?
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Still shy of the world stage
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Banyan
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EVEN analysts who make a living predicting a great shift of wealth, power and global leadership from the United States to China never anticipated the speed with which Donald Trump appears to be marginalising his homeland. Last week Mr Trump announced he would pull America out of the Paris accord on climate change. At an annual China-EU summit under way at the time, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, declared that China and Europe together would demonstrate “solidarity with future generations and responsibility ...