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Commentary: People around the world will demand change in 2020. Will global leaders be up to the challenge?

Foreign policy wasn't taking a back seat as the year ended and we started the third decade of this turbulent century. In Iraq, Iran-backed demonstrators chanting "Death to America" ransacked parts of the U.S. embassy compound. In North Korea, Kim Jong Un announced he would no longer abide by a testing moratorium that President Donald Trump had long trumpeted as a great diplomatic achievement.

But while Iraq, Iran, Korea and other crises are sure to demand Washington's immediate and focused attention, the coming year is likely

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