Blogging Through Media Trends and Globalization (2022)

  What is the relation between economy and globalization? Reading Assignment 4: Economic Globalization 1.Summary 1）CorporationsPeter Dicken mentioned that multinational corporations are major influencers in the global economy. The scale and formation mechanism of multinational corporations are also explained to a certain extent, which completely illustrates the inevitable trend of economic globalization from several aspects. 2）The main body of international economic relations is multinational corporations, which generally refer to large enterprises or groups, relying on their strong capital and advanced science and technology, through foreign direct investment, etc., set up branches abroad or control local enterprises in the host country to become their Subsidiaries, and engage in international production, sales and other business activities to obtain high profits for the purpose of international enterprises. Multinational corporations tend to internationalize R&D. Previously, ...

  China and globalization 1. Is globalization good for China? According to recent articles and blogs from The Economist. Globalization is good for China. During the time when China joined the process of globalization, great changes have taken place in China's economy, politics and culture. The impact of globalization is not only reflected in the continuous development of China's economy and the soaring GDP ranking, but also in the improvement of China's cultural soft power. After the Beijing Olympic Games was successfully held in 2008, Western media generally believed that the rise of China meant that the former "sick man of East Asia" no longer existed, and a vibrant eastern power had emerged. Among them, the United States was the first to take over the concept of globalization and promote it, trying to use globalization to promote American values ​​and development models in all aspects. As a latecomer, after years of arduous negotiations, China finally joined th...

  1) SUMMARY   The authors argue that political globalization can be understood as a tension between three processes that interact to produce a complex global political sphere; globalization has led to an expansion of the political scale, resulting in a major reassessment of the role and meaning of borders. Spaces of political construction. The emergence of new political spaces and the attendant border/re-border opportunities. The relationship between space and borders is central to understanding political globalization. New spaces and new forms of connection can be seen as an integral part of social and political relations. Political globalization refers to the intensification and expansion of political relations on a global scale. These processes raise a number of important political issues that are related to the principle of national sovereignty, the growing influence of intergovernmental organizations, and the prospect of local and global governance. Clearly, these t...

Cultural Globalization John Tomlinson THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURE （1)Summary  American sociologist John Tomlinson (John Tomlinson) emphasized that the phenomenon may be just because of the expansion of modernization, the loss of the foundation of regional culture, but this is not the result of cultural expansion. Under the conditions of global technological and economic progress and integration, national culture can easily lose its focus. Therefore, it is misleading to blame one country for global trends. It should be seen that all countries are affected by global cultural change. In the future, the term "globalization" may become the object of criticism, replacing the accusation of American cultural imperialism. Globalization, on the one hand, refers to the compression of the world; When talking about globalization, many people see it only as an economic phenomenon, but there are multiple causes and effects of globalization. Economic imperialism is a f...