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By Ross Elliott, published 7/5/2020Some suggest the long-term impacts of the current pandemic will turn fundamentals on their head. Others – myself included – are more sanguine.
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I remember leftwing academics who predicted the Arab Spring (2010-2011) would boost democracy in the Middle East were proven wrong by 2012. From 2012 Islamist and/or authoritarian governments bounced back or expanded.
Coronavirus? Maybe Trump's poor handling of that crisis will see a slight decline in American influence, compared to China.
But that decline is while Trump remains in power...
If Biden wins in November 2020 a centrist, less isolationist America will likely restore US influence to pre-Trump levels.