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Traditional and complementary medicine claims should be subject to the same evidence standards as other medical treatments.

Pandemic preparedness should be funded by a permanent treaty-based international mechanism, not unpredictable discretionary contributions.

Rich countries' vaccine nationalism during COVID caused preventable deaths and must not be repeated in future pandemics.

The WHO needs substantially stronger powers to investigate outbreaks quickly, without member state obstruction.

Vaccine patents should be waived during pandemics so that all countries can manufacture doses without licensing barriers.

International development finance for infrastructure should be coordinated through multilateral development banks rather than bilateral lending arrangements.

International financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank should give substantially more decision-making weight to developing nations.

Over-reliance on any single country for critical supply chains is a systemic economic and security risk that all nations should reduce.

Developing countries should retain the right to protect domestic industries while they build the capacity to compete internationally.

Trade tariffs between the US and China are ultimately borne by ordinary consumers and businesses in both countries.

Belt and Road Initiative loan agreements should include stronger debt sustainability protections for recipient countries.

The WTO's rules need fundamental reform to better serve the interests of developing countries, not only established trading powers.

All countries should establish independent national AI safety bodies with the authority to evaluate and pause high-risk AI deployments.

International cooperation on AI safety research should continue regardless of geopolitical tensions between major powers.

Open-source AI development benefits all countries by preventing technological monopolies from forming around a small number of powerful actors.

Technology decoupling between the US and China makes it harder to coordinate on shared AI safety risks that affect all countries.

Global AI safety standards should be agreed through a UN-level multilateral process, not set unilaterally by any single country or trading bloc.

Artificial intelligence systems that make decisions affecting individuals' rights must be explainable and subject to meaningful appeal.

Countries should have the right to require that citizens' data is stored and processed domestically — data sovereignty is a legitimate policy goal.

China's domestic coal capacity must begin declining significantly before 2035 if its carbon neutrality pledge is to be credible.