Globalization has
shrunk our world smaller and smaller. People get connected everywhere around
the globe. They started using common international language to ease their
communication with other people living in different part of the world. First
they started their connection from trade with neighboring countries, later on,
move to farther and farther distance, even across the continent. Nowadays, as
relation grows their economies link to one and other becomes a messy net. If
one is affected, the other would, though, at the other part would receive the
sight affect as well. We are now living in a society so-called global network.
As the Asian Financial Crisis, in 1997, is an undeniable example. It first
exploded in Thailand, sooner, it spread further to Taiwan, Singapore, Hong
Kong, as well as Indonesia and others. That is proved what globalization era is.
Being a member of global communities, we could not avoid any problem of which has
become and is considered common problem that everyone has to tackle with. For
instance, environmental problem, no one would decently stay untouched without
any affect from other country environmental problem. We could not say air
pollution is only this or that country’s issue. We have to recognize these
environmental issues as shared problems that need to tackle and solve cooperatively.
After crisis, we lost
something and at the same time learnt a lesson. From the lesson learnt we could
improve ourselves to better performance. Is it possible to avoid or prevent
crisis? What mechanisms should we apply to protect ourselves from crises? Is it
crisis a repeated problem occurring every decade as experts said?
In dealing with
crisis, I think, cooperation may be considered a powerful tool to help better
situation. Just recently, in debt crisis most European countries have faced,
China has stepped in to help some European countries to deal with their
financial situation by providing loans. Some people said this step in of China
was hidden behind some reasons. However, to me, I would think Chinese
involvement in helping some European countries was good; at least, China could
help other countries not to fall in debt and avoid creating more problems in their
societies, for instance, unemployment.
Personally, in
globalization context, cooperation is better than competition. For I see in
competition there are only two parties: loser and winner.
