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World watches US chaos with shock, dismay and some mockery

by Lori Hinnant
| January 7, 2021 8:09 AM

PARIS (AP) — As the world watched American institutions shaken to the core by an angry mob, officials and ordinary citizens wondered: How fragile is democracy, and how much stress could their own political systems withstand?

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