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    State of Disunion

    Feb 20, 2020 4 minutes
     By An Gang
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    The author is an op-ed contributor to Beijing Review and a researcher with the Pangoal Institution

    U.S. President Donald Trump’s supremely confident State of the Union address on February 4, his third, was more campaign rhetoric as he seeks reelection.

    Trump officially announced his candidacy in Pennsylvania on March 10, 2019, with the campaign slogan Keep America Great, a modification of his first election slogan. In the same way, his 2020 election manifesto doesn’t have any major surprises, continuing and re-emphasizing his 2016 program.

    As the last address before the presidential campaign, the main theme of the State of the Union was trumpeting what

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