The bipartisan push to ban TikTok in the US reflects both the growing distrust of China and lawmakers’ limited understanding of the tech world. While there are legitimate national-security concerns associated with the platform, a US ban could end up accelerating deglobalization.
thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
Turkey's massive death toll from the earthquakes in February attests to a much larger problem. From an overly powerful construction lobby and endemic corruption to the steady erosion of democratic institutions, it is clear that the country now needs a thorough political and economic transformation.
think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.
中国和印度的经济繁荣有助于减轻全球的不平衡。在过去的二十年里,印度人和中国人缩小了他们与富裕国家的差距(相对而言)。
但同时,许多世界上真正贫穷的国家变得更为落后(特别是在发展常常被形容为灾难的非洲),并且大多数国家内部的不平衡变得更为严重。日益扩大的不平衡在美国(自里根政府时期开始)、英国(自撒切尔政府时期开始)都有记录,它还出现在俄罗斯的私有化进程中,最近更是表现在中国和印度。
这些情况似乎加剧了全球的不平衡。因此,从总体上讲,全球的不平衡状况在过去的20年里似乎保持了相对的稳定。
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