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2020 will reshape the international order
JENNY CLEGG looks ahead at a year where an increasingly multipolar world will challenge US dominance
Protesters wave US flags during a rally outside the US consulate in Hong Kong, appealing to President Donald Trump for help

AMIDST the wider multipolar rebalancing of power with the rise of China, a series of major international events taking place in 2020 may mark the year out as a turning point in setting the agenda for the coming decade and for the rest of the 21st century.

As US-led global militarisation casts a cold-war shadow over historic opportunities for major powers to come together, now is the time for campaigns for peace, climate-change action and social justice to push together from below in a movement for international cooperation.

April-May and Sept: DEFENDER-Europe

The US and Nato will launch their new annual DEFENDER-Europe military exercises, involving the largest deployment of US-based forces to Europe in more than 25 years, to be followed later by DEFENDER-Pacific exercises.

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