28, 30, NY Times

Chapter 28 the argument against the idea of the nation states holding full control of the global system is brought up. Nation states’ power is declining with the rise of multinational corporations gaining larger influence on global powers. These multinational corporations are making decisions that in the past governments would have been making. With the interconnection of governments and international corporations, governments are not fully independently acting on global decision making. 

Chapter 30 points more towards offering explanation to the impact these international companies and markets have. Even though there are positive impacts surrounding globalization, more often than not the negatives are not put into thought. With a main point being the labor industry, we see many labor industries pushed around to where it can be done the cheapest, completely destroying communities that allow cheaper labor. There are also forces acting making governments dependent on their export labor industries to keep these prices low even if it comes at the cost of their own citizens. 

The New York Times article explains the importance of the China and Kazakhstan border, because this border is the separation between China’s different political structure and the rest of the world. The Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility is the furthest place from any ocean in the world, but is extremely important for the connection of Asia and Europe through land. The town of Khorgos which is there has become a major zone for processing shipments from Asia to Europe. I think this gives a good example to how globalization can completely change an area that may be seemingly useless to the world, building it in a place that the global economy would struggle without.