"While the government may not make a clear response at this time, it will keep close tabs on how things progress, " says Han Zhenshe, a senior scholar at the prestigious Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

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The one thing I think that is an important point that people might not assume is that the sustainability community needs to think more about the things that are not sustainability issues per se but are changing our world, and think about how things can be translated into more progress for sustainability.

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But it's a measure of both how much worse things have been in the past, and how desperate Somalis are for progress, that most people I've spoken to here are inclined to invest real hope in the current "road map", even if it is an obviously flawed process at the mercy of the usual currents of clan rivalry and regional divisions.

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