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" Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone. "
Shashi Tharoor
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" The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034? "
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