Kuala Lampur, April 11 --  

APRIL 11 - We live in an age of interconnected crises-climate change, pandemics and supply chain fragility-that demand unprecedented global cooperation. Yet the political landscape is increasingly defined by trade wars that fracture economies, border conflicts that spill blood, and a resurgence of zero-sum thinking that treats the world as a chessboard of winners and losers.

The user's plea, "Can't there be more diplomacy?" is not naive; it is the essential and urgent question of our time. The current disruption of sustainability is not a side effect of global politics-it is a direct result of its failure.

The problem is not a lack of diplomatic forums; the United Nations, G20 and countless summits alre...