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Both leaders are keen to present their vision of an alternative world order in the face of what they believe is US hegemony.

China has begun to challenge U.S. hegemony in Latin America.

Over the last two decades, China has begun to challenge longtime U.S. hegemony in Latin America.

Or were all those billionaire potentates in the Capitol Rotunda — seated in front of Trump’s Cabinet picks — asserting their social, economic and cultural hegemony?

Only a “near-peer” competitor was needed to turn that attenuating U.S. global hegemony into accelerating imperial decline.