[_ptgt]

I have no idea what relevance trade history from hundreds of years ago has to modern geopolitics and economic globalization.

Historically, Europeans didn’t know North America even existed and the USA wasn’ta country

[freeflight]

The very same economic globalization that turns out to be rather destructive to the environment?

I wonder if such problems might not end up forcing us to reconsider our trading priorities to account more for geographical distance, instead of just taking that as a given.

[bcrosby95]

The US seems to be geographically closer to Europe than China, so I'm not sure how this point would make Europe choose China over the US.

[mattrp]

I don’t think I said anything about physical proximity.

[mattrp]

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-new-silk-road-e...