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While the world is now multipolar, “not all the poles are the same”, noted Mr Wong.
The US remains a dominant power in this multipolar configuration “for the foreseeable future” and continues to have “significant interest in this part of the world”, he said.
During the dialogue, Mr Wong noted that there are some who think that America is on the decline.
“There are some who think that America is on the decline and is going to withdraw, and that it will just pull back into its own hemisphere. We don’t think that’s happening,” he said.
Mr Wong noted that people have been predicting the decline of America for a long time, including when he himself was a student. He had obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
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