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The US must be pragmatic when picking its allies US Politics: Building an alliance that can stand up to China involves hard choices about 2 hours ago US president Joe Biden: Can hardly operate a “democracies only” rule for local allies. Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/CNP/Bloomberg Unborn generations will take some persuading that it all began with washing machines. In three years, the US- China rift has widened from the banalities of trade to something like a clash of philosophic systems. An original belligerent, Donald Trump , seems ever tamer in retrospect. Imagine the former US president invoking the “freedom-loving nations” against...
