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S pore has role in fostering global cooperation amid challenges to multilateralism: Experts
Singapore must continue to stress the importance of an open economy and trading system, said an expert.ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
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The Finns prepare for everything
Speaking at one of the virtual forums in the Singapore Perspectives conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Diamond said the world was not prepared for Covid-19 despite the fact that it should.
This is because there have been emerging diseases before, such as SARS, which was transmitted through animal and human contact the same mechanism as Covid-19.
Diamond, who is the author of global best-selling book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies , then raised the positive example of Finland.
He said the Finns have a practice of being prepared for everything due to reasons such as their bad experience in World War Two when they were attacked by the Soviet Union. He added:
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This is crucial for small states even amid the pushback against multilateralism, panel says
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (seventh from right) and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan (sixth from right) with European and Asean leaders at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Brussels in 2018. A panellist at yesterday s Singapore Perspectives conference said Singapore must continue to stress the importance of an open economy and trading system despite the pushback against multilateralism.ST FILE PHOTO
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