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The World Will Regret Its Retreat from Economic Globalization
- KingLancelot 4y ago[dead]
- Arnt 4y agoThe world will surely do, as much as the world does anything. You may think the range is [0,0> or think it ends higher. Shrug. But I wonder whether the set of those who will regret it includes anyone who might change it.
- anthonyskipper 4y agoWe aren't retreating from globalization, we are just separating out the good and the evil and deciding not to do business with evil.
- hyuuu 4y agowhat's the criteria for each side?
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- FrontierPsych 4y agoDemocratic liberal political country on the "good" side. Autocratic dictatorships are the baddies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOpPNra4bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOpPNra4bw For example, China just went from a "sort of" almost democracy to full on autocratic dictorship the minute the law was passed that Xi Jinping is now life dictator. Same with Putin and Russia. I don't feel like I have to defend anything I wrote above - it's pretty self-evident.
- cassianoleal 4y agoIt's a lot less self-evident when you've been on the receiving end of the "good" side politics. Or perhaps more, but different.
- inglor_cz 4y agoA divorce is messy too, but sometimes necessary. The retreat from globalization is mostly caused by growing distrust of Western countries towards China and trust isn't a commodity. You can't do much business without at least some trust. Historically, this sort of necessary trust was strongest within certain religious or ethnic groups (Jews, Puritans, Armenians, Quakers). The willingness of the world at large to extend trust towards totally foreign nations in the 1990-2020 period is a historical anomaly.
- coldtea 4y agoIs that a prediction or a threat?