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How Biden can restore multilateralism

The world needs more than Trump's narrow transactional approach; so does the US

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Illustration: Binay Sinha

Joseph E Stiglitz
There is so much to celebrate with the new year. The arrival of safe, effective Covid-19 vaccines means that there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (though the next few months will be horrific). Equally important, America’s mendacious, incompetent, mean-spirited president will be replaced by his polar opposite: A man of decency, honesty, and professionalism.

But we should harbour no illusions about what President-elect Joe Biden will face in office. There will be deep scars left from the Trump presidency, and from a pandemic that the outgoing administration did so little to fight. The economic trauma will
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