https://www.scmp.com/rss/505117/feed Nicolas Pirsoul is a recent PhD graduate from the University of Auckland en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The year 2020 appears to have started badly and grown progressively worse. There have been record bush fires in Australia, swarms of locusts in Africa and Asia, the threat of war between the United States and Iran and, most recently, the emergence of a coronavirus pandemic. This is not to mention ongoing issues such as the Syrian and Libyan civil wars, the humanitarian crises in South Sudan and Yemen, the slide into authoritarianism in Turkey, Russia and China, and the weakening of democracy... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3064837/beginning-end-reject-politics-fear-and-embrace-hope-and-cooperation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3064837/beginning-end-reject-politics-fear-and-embrace-hope-and-cooperation?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Mar 2020 01:00:06 +0000