摘要: |
Shipping, particularly container shipping, figures prominently in The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, the latest book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, energy expert, and IHS Markit vice chairman Daniel Yergin. The reason is the container represents much of what has changed in the world order over the past 20 years. The ubiquitous container helped create, and is perhaps, the most visible symbol of globalization that you see travelling around the world. However, today the container has come to represent something different and disturbing: a breakdown in the geopolitical consensus around globalization caused by protectionism. This saw high water marks in the creation of the World Trade Organization and the formal accession of mainland China to that organization on 11 December 2001. |