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Is the US Ready To Be No. 2?

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Feb 13, 2013
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US leaders dare not admit it, but China's poised to become the largest economy Long before anyone did, former US president Bill Clinton saw that America would have to prepare for the time when it would no longer be the No. 1 power in the world. In his 2003 Yale University address on "Global Challenges," he said:

If you believe that maintaining power and …

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