IN A supposedly globalising economy, it is perhaps surprising that countries increasingly trade with their neighbours.
Sony, an electronics giant, has long been globalising production.
Digitally remastered Beyond Tiger Tutors to the world ReprintsThe world's best schools are globalising their intake, too.
Now many sports are trying to pull off a more difficult trick: globalising their product markets too.Start, though, with labour and with baseball.
But the question is whether this can best be addressed by "globalising"—that is, by opening their markets, investing in infrastructure, removing price distortions, strengthening the rule of law and establishing western-style democracy.
In India's case, one recent consequence of a rapidly growing and globalising economy has been an outpouring of books with titles like "Remaking India", "Shaping India of our Dreams", "The Great Indian Dream", "Rising Elephant" and "Rethinking India".
Many of those who cannot cope with an accelerating, globalising, knowledge-based society (or fear they cannot), he argues, cast their ballot for the Left Party.
Mr Wang argues that whereas the first three waves revolutionised China and the fourth modernised it, the fifth wave is globalising the country.Sea turtles are helping to link China's economy to the world.
And they can even keep track of a country's agricultural production by recognising what crops are grown where as Italian olive farmers once discovered to their cost when they were caught overclaiming on subsidies.Photographs of the earth from space have also had another, more subtle, globalising effect: they have helped to remind people that they do, indeed, inhabit a single globe.
But in the case of drugs, a relentlessly globalising business, the sharply diverging approaches will lead to more uncomfortable stand-offs between East and West.
