According to an editorial in the China Times: "The 9-11 terrorist attacks show that the logic of globalization doesn't apply equally to everyone throughout the world." Globalization is a battle in which survival itself is at stake, continues the editorial. It is about survival of the fittest in a world without national borders, but the poor and weak have already been excluded from the game.
「九一一事件顯示，全球化的邏輯並非均霑世人，」中國時報社論指出，全球化是場生死存亡、適者生存的無國界競爭，但這場遊戲卻已先宣佈貧窮無力者出局。