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...This spoke to a huge question hanging over the WEF’s annual gathering, now in its third day....
...This year, 28 per cent of the conference’s attendees will be women — a “significant milestone”, the WEF tells me....
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...Among the townspeople The sharp changes in China over the past three years were on display at the WEF this week....
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...Nearly every WEF dispatch judges corporate and political confidence to be weaker than the beforetimes....
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...Many of the latter have made the WEF a symbol of inequality and rootless international capitalism....
...Kicking off on Tuesday with a speech from Premier Li Qiang, China’s second-ranked politician after President Xi Jinping, the WEF meeting comes as China’s economy is struggling to stage a robust recovery...
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