Issue197【GTER三月机考群第二次作业】by Lafela

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Issue197-Interconnection of nations
"The material progress and well-being of one country are necessarily connected to the material progress and well-being of all other countries."



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With the international status more informed by people and the connection among countries stronger day by day, I totally agree with the issue that the material progress and well-being of one country are connected to those of other countries.

The connection among countries can be concluded into such categories as economics, science and technology, war, diseases and natural resources. These categories are the very factors that won’t be restrained by the nation boundaries, but conversely, will get more and more merged to reach a status of globalization, which is exactly what the whole world are trying to achieve. No matter whether GLOBALIZATION meets every countries needs, it is inevitably affecting the decision on balance between independence and concomitance of every living country and leading the world to get connected.

It won’t be difficult for us to understand the fact that the prosperity of one country may influence its neighbor country. Actually, this fact has been existing for centuries and if we take a deeper study into it, we will find that the influence among countries can be either positive or negative.

On the positive side, the co-working of several countries may bring positive changes and well-being to other countries. One example is that the establishment of People’s Republic of China in which Chinese government got a lot of help from the Soviet Union and other countries that fought against Fascism, witnessed concomitance among different countries to achieve a better world. Another example is that the Industrial Revolution in 18th century, first beginning in Britain, soon spread to the whole Europe and brought those European countries into the revolution and afterwards, the great achievement.

On the negative side, the strengthening of one country may be set up on the basis of devastation to other countries. The World War II, as everyone has known, was the best example that Germany became the most powerful nation at that time. It is undeniable that Germany owned the material progress and well-being, but they achieved this so-called progress and well-being by cruel and wide-ranged massacre, occupation of other countries and destruction on the well-being of other nations. The Financial Storm in the end of 2008 starting in the United States, has forced a lot of local banks into bankrupt. And this storm brought us such a strong impact that may affect the economics in Europe, Asia and may last for quite a long time.

To sum up, the material progress and well-being of one country are truly necessarily connected to other countries. However positively or negatively these connections are getting, we can’t deny this condition.