But no democracy is an island, not even Taiwan. So, the other laureates show across the world in various different configurations, in the front line in the struggle against autocracy that again and again, horizontal peer-to-peer, this horizontal mode of trust can actually get depolarization done, can deliver results. And so in my mind, this is a network of democracies that reinforce each other, and together we can make democratic backsliding into the democratic comeback.

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