cultural identity, which needs to be local and national in nature.”
许多达沃斯人当然不接受亨廷顿的说法。世界经济论坛的创始人兼执行主席克劳斯?施瓦布争辩说，对全球观表示赞同并不意味着去除对国家的认同。“全球化永远不可能给予我们文化上的认同，因为后者在本质上必须是本土的﹑民族的。”
6 Global trade has been around for centuries; the corporations and countries that benefited from it were largely content to treat vast parts of the world as places to mine natural resources or sell finished products. Even as the globalization of capital accelerated in the 1980s, most foreign investment was between relatively wealthy countries, not from wealthy countries into poor ones. U.S. technology, companies and money were often at the forefront of this movement.
全球贸易已经持续了几个世纪；过去从中获益的企业和国家在很大程度上满足于这一点，即将世界上的广大地区当做自然资源的开采或者是成品的销售地。尽管到了20世纪80年代，资本全球化的速度加快，大多数外国投资仍然在相对富裕的国家间进行，并非从富裕国家流向较贫穷的国家。美国的技术、公司和资金通常处于这种流动的前沿。
7 However the past two decades have witnessed the rise of other significant players. The developed world is beating a path to China and India’s door –and Chinese and Indian companies, in turn, have started what it calls a “Going Out”policy that encourages Chinese firms to buy assets overseas. Asian nations are creating “ a remarkable