But, when historians look back on the wave of globalization after 1990 – which has brought two billion new producers into the world economy – they will find a turning point around 2010. For the first time in 150 years, the West (America and the European Union) was out-manufactured, out-produced, out-exported, out-traded, and out-invested by the rest of the world.
有人说1930年那场史上最严酷经济危机其实是另一更严峻问题的先兆，这一看法或许看上比较奇怪。然而当历史学家回顾1990年后那场将20亿新生产者卷入世界经济的全球化浪潮时，他们会发现在2010年左右其实出现了一个转折点：150年来西方（美国以及欧盟）第一次在制造、生产、出口，贸易和投资方面被世界其他地区全面超越。