Astonishingly, neither Taj nor Bao 111 serves foie gras, which has otherwise leapt all geographic constraints, transcended any ethnic affiliation and unleashed a powerful sense of dining déjà vu upon our borderless landscape.
But most of the powerful forces, good and evil, of our new century are borderless, globalized — the almost unimpeded global flow of information (images, ideas, news, music, movies, emotions, hatreds), products, commodities, capital, environmental pollution, climate change and terrorism.
"So whether it's bitcoin, or whether it's the various direct debit payment systems which are popular throughout Europe, or whether it's M-pesa in Kenya, it totally makes sense, as more and more of our merchants are these borderless businesses selling to a global audience, to support what customers want to pay with".
This becomes particularly problematic in our epoch of a borderless War on Terror that can never be won or lost.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York; Kris Kobach, the secretary of state of Kansas; and Robert Guest, the author of "Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism," offer their perspectives.
It had nothing of the elusive asymmetry of borderless modern warfare, counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.
And students here again found their school in the middle of a sex-related scandal and annoyed at the power of the murky, borderless world of the Internet to wreak havoc and tarnish images.
Over the next 12 months we will pioneer a new era of borderless retail and entertainment by integrating our e-commerce offering with our global ecosystem of Internet services, to make shopping more fun".
"The restricted control of information lies at the heart of the D.P.R.K. state, and yet it is about to host one of the West's greatest facilitators of borderless information flows," Mr. Cha added, using the acronym for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
In fact, few businessmen have more energetically embraced the idea of a borderless Europe.
