The world is shifting, and with it comes an unsettling sense of uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Once the undisputed leader of the post-war order, the United States<\/a> now appears to resent its own dominance, lashing out at allies and adversaries alike. Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s chaotic second term in the White House has been emblematic of this change. His erratic policies \u2013 lopsided \u201creciprocal\u201d tariffs, threats to annex Canada<\/a> and Greenland<\/a>, and a strange cocktail of isolationism and imperial ambition \u2013 have left even America\u2019s closest partners reeling.<\/p>\n Online, videos proliferate, all posing the same question: is this the end of the American century?<\/p>\n Trump is, in many ways, behind time; the age of empires is over<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Few figures alive today have witnessed the rise and fall of empires like Mahathir Mohamad<\/a>. Born in 1925, in the shadow of the first world war, Mahathir grew up in rural Kedah, a Malaysian state then under Siamese suzerainty. He has lived through Japanese occupation during World War II, the break-up of the British Empire, and the ascendancy of first America, then China.Now, as he approaches his 100th birthday in July, the two-time prime minister of Malaysia<\/a> sees a familiar pattern playing out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world is shifting, and with it comes an unsettling sense of uncertainty. Once the undisputed leader of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[35150,35151,943,32,4428,2194,366,35153,1055,35149,35152,2943,657,49,978,659,2150,12873],"class_list":{"0":"post-70225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-anwar-ibrahim","9":"tag-cambodia","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-fentanyl","13":"tag-gaza","14":"tag-greenland","15":"tag-mahathir-mohamad","16":"tag-malaysia","17":"tag-panama-canal","18":"tag-suharto","19":"tag-taiwan","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa","24":"tag-vietnam","25":"tag-world-war-ii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114442017695584095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}