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EDITORIAL. It is the South that now bears the chances of a concerted management of planetary risks. Witness the G20 and COP27.
By Nicolas Baverez
© MASANORI GENKO FOR POOL/ The Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP
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Lth XXIe century is placed under the sign of universal history, shared by the 8 billion human beings who now inhabit the planet. All are interdependent. All face mounting systemic risks resulting from the energy crisis, famines, financial crashes, pandemics, climate change, the spread of violence – including in the form of a nuclear apocalypse.
Thus, the tensions around Taiwan go hand in hand with an increasingly frontal economic confrontation between Beijing and Washington, China seeking to cut off the United States from access to the rare earths essential for the climate transition, while that the United States organize an embargo against China affecting the last generations of semi-con…
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