Seeking Understanding and Cooperation in a World of Disputes: New Year Greetings from BECE

For most of us, the year of 2022 was not a desirable year. The COVID-19 epidemic was still affecting the lives of billions of people. The high transmissibility of the new strains and the concern over long COVID-19 made them less confident in their expectation of completely getting rid of the adverse impact of the epidemic. In the meantime, war, famine, natural disasters, and economic downturn were also challenging the coping capacities of human society. All evidence indicates that there remains a multitude of issues for mankind to address.