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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.

Climate change cooperation between the US and China should be insulated from other elements of strategic rivalry.

Developing countries should not be pressured to decarbonise at the same pace as wealthy nations that industrialised over two centuries.

China's expansion of solar and wind capacity is one of the most consequential developments in global climate action.

Developed countries bear a greater historical responsibility for cumulative atmospheric carbon than rapidly industrialising nations.

China's Belt and Road Initiative must stop financing overseas coal power plants — the climate cost cannot be offset by other investments.

China's 2060 carbon neutrality commitment is meaningful but requires substantially more ambitious near-term policies to be credible.

Canada should establish a national post-secondary education quality framework to ensure credentials are recognised consistently across all provinces.

Canada needs a national school nutrition programme — it remains the only G7 country without one.