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    America 2021: Rife With Disappointment

    Jan 13, 2022 4 minutes
    By Josef Gregory Mahoney
    Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

    It was another one of those years in China-U.S. relations, except that it wasn’t. One wants to write with nonchalance about a post-pandemic, post-Trump new normal, and yet, here we are. Slipping further into a new cold war while COVID-19 rages on and the planet continues to overheat.

    Each of these calamities is reversible and to be sure, there was great optimism for quick turnarounds when Joe Biden defeated his predecessor. Not even the nonsensical coup attempt on January 6, 2021, dampened moods. In fact, that day, plus all the others when Trumpists

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