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Driven by the belief that their people were superior to everyone else, the first leaders of one of the youngest nations on the planet expanded their domains across North America. But then, unlike empires like the Spanish or the British, American presidents renounced conquering and administering colonies far from their borders. Their expansion was more economic and political than geographic; presenting itself as the savior of democracy and freedoms in the world, the United States liberated Western Europe from Hitler and Stalin, but also worked to weaken the democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile and disrupted the political order of the Middle East by invading Iraq under false pretexts. Today, although the United States remains the world's leading military power, after decades without rivals, Xi Jinping's China has set out to seize that power. A report by Laura Iglesias San Martín, Jaime González Arguedas and Mariano Ramírez Gisbert for #DWAnaliza with contributions by lawyer Ana Gabriela Urizar, historian and professor Juan Miguel Zunzunegui and professor and researcher Hugo Harvey.