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Rediscovering our common humanity in a divided world

From climate change to smartphone addiction, fake news to the workplace revolution, ST writers lay out the new decade's challenges and their hopes and wishes

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Warren Fernandez

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Three challenges

1. CHINA-US RIFT SPLITS WORLD

Decoupling - that icy, or perhaps worse, a fiery, splitting up between two who are inherently inseparable, with all the nasty side effects that entails. This ugly word, I fear, could become the leitmotif of the decade just begun, writ large on the world stage.
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