国际商务（英文版数字教材版）拓展阅读.doc

Chapter I: Globalization, Regional Economic Integration and International Business Extended reading Where will globalization go in the face of headwinds? The concept of globalization is familiar, but it feels big and empty. China points out that economic globalization and regional integration are the trend of the time. At the same time, however, another anti-globalization voice is also gaining ground. Why does this happen? Where will globalization go? What is globalization? In theory, globalization refers to the unimpeded flow of capital, people, science and technology around the world. Different countries have different understandings of globalization. The globalization advocated by China is a process of economic globalization, which does not involve cultural and political issues. Economic globalization is a very good idea. Its economic starting point is Adam Smiths division of labor theory. Adam Smith highly valued the role of division of labor in the economic process as an important way to increase productive capacity. Economic globalization means division of labor in the world. Different countries and regions in the world have different allocation of labor, natural resources, technology, capital and other aspects, and have different advantages. The economic development of the whole world can be understood as a global chess game with the thinking mode of economic rationalism. According to the advantages of different countries and regions, the optimal distribution, so as to give full play to the advantages, so as to bring maximum benefits to all mankind. However, some Western countries, represented by the United States, have a homogeneous understanding of globalization, that is, the whole world has become the same in accordance with the political and economic models of western countries. Especially in recent years, ideological problems have become more and more serious, and the confrontation has become more and more fierce, no less than the bipolar confrontation b