At that point, the world breathed a collective sigh of relief. But, in the early 2000’s, globalization triggered the “second unfreezing” by facilitating rapid economic growth in Asian countries that, for two centuries, had been constrained by Western dominance, Cold War rules and institutions, and rampant poverty.
这让全世界都大舒一口气。但是，在21世纪初，全球化通过刺激亚洲国家的快速增长触发了“第二次解冻”。200年来，亚洲国家一直受着西方国家主导、冷战规则和制度以及肆虐的贫困的约束。