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Letters | May 2026 bring more peace and more jobs

Readers discuss hopes for the new year, the prospect of an EU-like Asian union, and the cult of ‘result-oriented’

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A Palestinian woman walks along a street surrounded by buildings destroyed during Israeli air and ground operations in Sheikh Radwan, a residential district of Gaza City, on December 30. Photo: AP
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The year 2025 is coming to a close and 2026 is waltzing in. I am hopeful that the coming year will bring more peace and joy to people everywhere.

I hope the wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan and other conflict zones will end and people can rebuild their lives again. Let nations invest in their fields and factories to improve productivity and spend less on guns and drones to kill one another.
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I hope more people can travel without restrictions to see new places and make new friends. A borderless world may be a utopian hope, but New Year is a time for idealism.

Hopefully we will focus on fighting poverty and fostering development in 2026, leaving behind a year in which we were overwhelmed by trade wars and traumatic tariff somersaults.

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Where the high prices of food, rental and transport have weighed on even the middle classes, I hope they start to ease in the coming year. Inflation depresses living standards. Controlling food inflation, in particular, should be the No 1 goal of leaders across the world.

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