2010-03-17, 14:33 | Link #6582 | |
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Blue collar workers in that rusting region priced themselves out of the market and churned out craptastic cars & electronics compared to what the japs and germans were exporting. |
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Europe-India connection is being implemented, although more slowly than the rest, but notice the article conclusion, in year 2008: Quote:
So that's two keys countries on the way, which are already clearing major geographical obstacles.
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2010-03-17, 14:52 | Link #6584 | |
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Okay lets stop this.
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Well, I'ld wait a few years and look at the average speeds. I'ld not be surprised if the average speed is like 170km/h by then.
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2010-03-17, 20:10 | Link #6586 |
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I'm thinking more along the lines of before Europeans arrived here, but yeah. Guess it depends on how one defines the start of globalization, I was somewhat operating under the assumption it began during the era of exploration and colonization.
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2010-03-17, 22:55 | Link #6587 | |
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How do you think the US got to be the superpower it is today? We sold Europe and and the rest of world over these last two centuries, a plethora of goods, and particularly during the World Wars, tons of weapons.
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2010-03-18, 01:04 | Link #6589 | ||
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The U.S., when it was still young, was more of a raw materials provider than a goods seller. It was still known as a backwater than an industrial power like, say, England. I seem to remember that it was a capital crime in England to export tech (related to steel making only?) outside of the country? Pre-WWI, I would agree in that the U.S. began to industrialize, but that is more due to the needs of (1) Reconstruction, (2) immigration and (3) expansion, esp. to the West. Opportunities appeared, and people (Europeans with the know-how, brains and money and Americans with the smarts) took advantage. After WWII is more of when the U.S. began to become more of a goods supplier and a "global powerhouse", IMHO. In any case, I would not be surprised if at some time in the future, jobs removed in the U.S. due to outsourcing will return. In the mid/late 90's, I saw jobs going to places like Ireland. In the early 2000's, it was to places like Nova Scotia and India, which continued to the mid 00's while the jobs in Ireland went virtually stagnant at the same levels. Now, it's to China. The costs in China aren't as low as they were back then - although compared to parts of the U.S.'s, they are still cheaper and will likely stay that way for awhile. All personal observations, of course, but everything changes due to (1) countries' policies, (2) people's views and (3) companies' bottom lines. Somali pirates attempt to attack Dutch warship Quote:
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2010-03-18, 01:05 | Link #6590 |
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No, much of Europe's productive capacity was destroyed during WWII. As a result America was able to supply a lot during the reconstruction in the mid-20th century. In the later 20th century the GATT came into effect, which was the precursor to the WTO. The WTO itself wasn't created until the 1990s.
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2010-03-18, 04:09 | Link #6591 | ||||
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Yes, I'll just conclude on it.
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Also, your perception is distorted by the apparent extreme length of the line, but a comparison with many countries network expansion plans put it into perspective: China is building 42000 km of passenger rail lines, 13000 km of it being HSR, and even a relatively country like Spain is expanding it's HSR from 7000 to 10000 km. Moreso, it doesn't fall all on China, the most difficult parts, like mountains and undersea tunnels, are handled by Turkey and Iran, other regional powers which are building their own HSR arteries. What China commits itself to, apart from expanding it's own HSR lines, is to prolong it trough the flat, virtually devoid of any geographical obstacle steppes of Kazakhstan; as well as promote interoperability and overall high performance (gauge and electrification parts are already being done). Quote:
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It's never gonna end without using the time-tested traditional anti-piracy policies; the downturn of piracy in the Malacca being due to the effectiveness of patrols, which I'm pretty sure are not too much concerned about the pirates well being .
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2010-03-18, 10:48 | Link #6592 | |
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This from Hunt, an historian on the post World War II History. |
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2010-03-18, 10:53 | Link #6593 | ||
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Though I don't like to marry some obese woman(yes they think that fat women can bear more children, but they pass down hepatitis, high blood pressure, stroke to them as well) with no character and does nothing but cook and clean, and that globalisation has taken away them and replaced with skinny anorexics who expect me to earn $10k per month, I still think globalisation is a better choice. At least there are football and catgirls. Quote:
That place is like 10 times smaller than the Gulf of Aden. And also the local navies have reliable ships like the Fearless and Kedah class Patrol Vessels. With Singapore and Malaysia there are already 16 PVs doing patrols in the region daily, keeping the pirates' heads down. As for the pirates' well being, I am sure they will be treated accordingly to the UN Human Rights Charter before their death sentences though.
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2010-03-18, 12:09 | Link #6594 | |
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2010-03-18, 12:27 | Link #6595 | |
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Without the foreign countries, our economy could never have been so prosperous. When it got to the World Wars, both World War I and World War II, the US already had the economic power to overtake the European countries. It just wasn't channeling all its resources, and the destruction of many European countries helped the US to finally overtake them, which at this point was an inevitability as is China today to many other countries. Anyhow, globalization was essential to how the US became so powerful. We didn't take ourselves out of our great depression by becoming isolationists again, but rather through the economic relations we made with the European countries, as we supplied them a crap ton of supplies during both World Wars, and afterwards when they were rendered incapable of producing enough for their countries.
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2010-03-18, 16:51 | Link #6598 |
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Lol, Wal-mart has been getting lots of bad press lately. Here's another one.
Walmart fires man for using medical marijuana. |
2010-03-18, 20:51 | Link #6599 | |
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2010-03-18, 21:52 | Link #6600 |
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Well, that is a matter of opinion. I would say other things like the insistence on the democratic principles of human rights and self-determination are great things about America, and they preceded globalization. To each his own, I guess.
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