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Deductions & credits
There is only one relevant question here - "Have you completed the first four years of post-secondary education before the beginning of the tax year?"
It doesn't make any difference where you completed those first four years of post-secondary education or whether you earned a bachelors degree.
If you completed the first four years of post-secondary education before the beginning of the tax year, then you do not qualify for the American Opportunity Credit.
Publication 970 (2020), Tax Benefits for Education does not make any distinction between bachelor's degrees earned at a foreign university and those earned in the U.S., nor does it make a distinction on where you might have completed post-secondary education.
See Who is eligible to take the American Opportunity Tax Credit?