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    MOVING FORWARD

    Dec 10, 2020 3 minutes
    By Shi Yongming
    Copyedited by Sudeshna Sarkar

    The author is an international studies expert and op-ed contributor to Beijing Review

    After thousands of years of evolution from individual struggles for existence, human civilization is at another historic crossroads today: whether to propel competition into confrontation, or establish a social ecology of cooperation.

    What distinguishes civilization from barbarism is not the capacity for material productivity but the capacity to build symbiotic societies. The future lies in people’s perceptions and the choices they make.

    The novel coronavirus disease pandemic is an example. While it has shown that joint

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