Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.
While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.
In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
Humankind is getting more and more connected.
The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.
I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.