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February 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Is Inviting Everyone to the Meeting Holding Back Global Cooperation? | Qahir Dhanani | TED
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Key Takeaways
- 1The next time you take an international trip, take a look at your passport.
- 2Our modern world runs on international cooperation.
- 3Yet today, we face a crisis of trust in the international system.
- 4But international cooperation remains absolutely essential.
- 5Imagine trying to write a project memo with 200 well-meaning colleagues.
Overview
The next time you take an international trip, take a look at your passport. Those two lines of letters and numbers at the bottom - the machine-readable zone - represent international cooperation at its finest. Without them, you wouldn't be able to board that plane or cross immigration. This standard, established by the International Civil Aviation Organization in 1980 with just three countries initially, now spans virtually every nation on Earth.
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