DAVOS TAKEAWAYS Listen to all our special Davos Confidential podcast episodes — or dive directly into the final episode featuring Paul Grod, president of the Ukrainian World Congress, Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad and James Rogers, founder of Apeel. It's back to a winter Davos in 2023: The event is scheduled for Jan. 15-20. First ever survey of trust in WEF: A survey by international research agency Glocalities , of 26,000 people in 25 countries, found that more people distrust the World Economic Forum than trust it. Globally, 39 percent of participants don't trust the WEF compared to 27 percent who do. The other third don't know whether to trust it or not. WEF is least trusted in its own backyard: Western Europe. The highest levels of trust in WEF are found in developing economies including India and China, and among high achievers. RIP DAVOS MAN, LONG LIVE GLOBALIZATION Globalization isn't over, it's just outgrowing the World Economic Forum. That's POLITICO's takeaway from five days of talks, panel discussion and bilateral pow-wows at the first in-person Davos in more than two years. If you think of globalization as a largely post-Cold War subject, yes, it's retreating in part. But that's too narrow a frame: It's really a process that's been going on for thousands of years. Global Insider looks at how, in its latest iteration, globalization is no longer economics-driven, and no longer Western-led. Instead, in a world where political risk is multiplying and power is decentralizing, the globalizing forces are digitally driven, as likely about new rules and regulations as about supply-chain efficiency. As NATO's Jens Stoltenberg put it this week: "Freedom is more important than free trade. Protecting our values is more important than profit." Arancha Gonzalez, the former executive director of the International Trade Center and a former foreign minister of Spain, framed it this way to Global Insider: "Our concept of risk has expanded. The rules part will now be as important as opening markets. It's no longer a case of opening markets and thinking it will all work out. It will not." But that doesn't mean the global economy is shutting down. Columbia University's Adam Tooze told us: "It's B.S. Ending globalization? Life as we know it would cease to exist. When people say this, they're either naive or apocalyptic," he said, adding, "it's a bad way of thinking about the problem." Tooze expects "a reconfiguration of globalization, a rearrangement, and politicization in certain respects of certain relationships." Alexander Stubb, the peppy former prime minister of Finland, who now leads the European University Institute's School of Transnational Governance, warns of a complicated future. "I think we'll have more regionalization of globalization (and) if we want to work for a rules-based order, it's not necessarily going to be us setting the rules anymore." Loic Tassel , European president of Procter & Gamble International Operations, says regional supply chains are here to stay: "Ninety-plus percent of what we're going to be selling in Europe will be produced in Europe. That's a profound change, which I think is going to be a lasting one." TECH — CALL FOR SPYWARE MORATORIUM AT DAVOS: A lineup of human rights heavy hitters gathered in the Alps to push world leaders to hit pause on purchasing and developing spyware until it can be regulated to preserve human rights. "Reigning in spyware is a key to preserving democracy," said Human Rights Watch chief Ken Roth, saying Pegasus is just the "tip of the iceberg." Without regulation, "we will be plagued by one Pegasus after the other." Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard said even governments that have been targeted by spyware, such as France, have been reluctant to do anything about it. "They became almost sort of embarrassed" that they could be hacked, Callamard said. "Whatever they may have done discreetly through diplomatic channels is not sufficient." The International Trade Union Confederation's Tim Noonan argued that using surveillance technology to track truckers and make sure telecommuters are on task at home is a "feudal model" of the employment relationship. RUSSIA FRONTS GERMANY'S SCHOLZ TO WEF: In a special address, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz denounced the Russian aggression and used it as a reason to accelerate Europe's energy transition. He called Putin's Ukraine invasion "imperialism" and "an attempt to blast us back to a time when war was a common instrument of politics." Scholz said: "Ultimately, our goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 has been given an additional boost by Putin's war." FINALLY, A DIPLOMATIC RESIGNATION: Boris Bondarev , Russia's counselor to the United Nations in Geneva, an arms control expert, has resigned. In a LinkedIn post, he called Russia's war a "crime against the Ukrainian people" and said "never have I been so ashamed of my country." In a follow-up post, Bondarev said he was "grateful for all of you who sent me your support and appreciation. It is very important for me and my family in this situation we are in now." RUSSIA OPEN TO OPENING BLACK SEA PORTS FOR FOOD EXPORTS: There's a catch: Moscow demands a partial lifting of sanctions. MOSCOW PLANS TO SEIZE ASSETS OF FIRMS THAT WITHDRAW FROM COUNTRY: The Russian government is advancing a new law that would allow it to seize the assets of multinationals shutting up shop in the country (more than 1,000 companies have). The argument is that the assets would be used to support local jobs or industry. NORTH KOREA — A WORRYING MISSILE TEST: It may be the 17th test in 2022 alone, but with the successful firing of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile with the potential capacity to deliver a nuclear bomb almost anywhere in the world, it's time to pay attention argues Richard Lloyd Parry. PAKISTAN — MORE KHAN PROTESTS ON THE WAY: Pakistan's ousted prime minister, Imran Khan, urged a protest march by supporters to disband, after the group clashed with police outside Parliament, but insisted that unless an election is called within a week, they would return. U.K. — PARTYGATE IN PERSPECTIVE: It took months longer than expected, but the police have issued their fines, and top civil servant Sue Gray has issued her 60-page report into repeated illegal parties in Downing Street during the country's Covid lockdowns. In a sentence: It's ugly for Prime Minister Boris Johnson . A snap YouGov poll published Thursday found that 59 percent of adult Britons believe Johnson should now resign, including 27 percent of his own party base. The underlying attitude rubs Brits the wrong way: Gray's report concluded that Downing Street advisers repeatedly showed a lack of respect toward their security and cleaning colleagues who tried to raise concerns about the parties. U.S. — GUNS NOW THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN AMERICAN CHILDREN: What a horrible sentence to write, in the wake of yet another massacre. According to CDC 2020 data, 4,368 U.S. youths were killed by guns. It's not about to change: While a majority of American voters would like stronger gun controls, they are not as motivated to act as defenders of gun access rights who link those rights to their identity and culture. How other countries solved this gun violence problems.
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