How do you get people to eat more fruit and less junk food?
How do you get more people to agree to donate their organs?
How do you get more people to engage in cross-border mediation?
I’ll come back…
Author's Note: For those readers who do not speak or read Chinese, the words and numbers in brackets indicate how to pronounce and intonate the Chinese characters indicated
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