The security-obsessed global economy needs its own Helsinki process

SCMP•Wed, Aug 26, 2026, 12:30 PM•2 min read

Forty years ago, the Stockholm Document turned the political promise of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act into a more practical system of confidence-building. Amid the Cold War, Europe’s East and West did not disarm, abandon deterrence or begin to trust one another. Instead, they agreed that military...

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