en-us	In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, some friends in the West shrugged the virus off as a China problem until they found out that... 
zh-cn	在新冠肺炎疫情初期，一些西方朋友不以为然，认为这只是中国的问题，直到他们发现...... 

en-us	Apple limited global iPhone sales after Foxconn shut down its China factories, and Australian lobster prices plummeted from 90 Australian dollars a kilo to just 20, after their biggest buyer, China, closed virtually all its restaurants. 
zh-cn	苹果公司对iPhone手机全球限购，因为富士康公司关闭了在中国的工厂。同时，澳大利亚的龙虾价格也从每公斤90澳元跌到仅20澳元，因为最大买家中国一度关闭了几乎所有餐馆。 

en-us	Now, as the virus hits Western countries, some Chinese are gloating. 
zh-cn	现在，小部分中国人又对西方遭受的疫情有种幸灾乐祸心态。 

en-us	However, we need to bear in mind that there are millions of Chinese now living and working overseas, including 360,000 Chinese students studying in the United States alone. 
zh-cn	但是别忘了，有数百万中国人在海外生活和工作。其中，在美国的留学生就有36万。 

en-us	And China's export dropped 17 percent in February because of weaker demand from its coronavirus-hit trading partners. 
zh-cn	二月份，中国的出口额下跌17%，原因是疫情减低了贸易伙伴们对中国产品的需求。 

en-us	This map above shows how interconnected and complex the supply chain is for the most common items we buy. 
zh-cn	从这张图片可以看出，我们常买的一些物品是通过错综复杂的全球供应链生产出来的。 

en-us	While this graphic below shows global air traffic on a given day: 220 thousand flights. 
zh-cn	而这张图片展示了一天里国际航空交通情况。

en-us	Photo via Flightradar24In response to this pandemic, there are reinforced borders, halted commercial and trade, rising xenophobia and politicization. 
zh-cn	你看的没错，有22万架次飞机在一天内起降。为应对此次疫情，各国增强了边境控制，中止了商贸往来，排外情绪加剧，病毒还被政治化。

en-us	Will all this end the globalization as we know it? 
zh-cn	这些会让我们今天的全球化走向终结吗？ 

en-us	Maybe not. 
zh-cn	未必。 

en-us	Data shows that since the World War II disruptions to trade by geopolitical tensions and natural disasters were short-lived. 
zh-cn	数据显示，自二战以来，地缘政治冲突和自然灾害对贸易所造成的冲击都是暂时的。 

en-us	The "comparative advantage" theory shows that people always tend to trade if it benefited them. 
zh-cn	国际经济“比较优势”理论认为，如果能互惠互利，人们就会进行贸易交易。

en-us	In a similar vein, investments, more often than not, flow to where they are most profitable. 
zh-cn	同理，逐利的资本通常也会流向利润最多的地方。 

en-us	For example, despite Brexit negotiations, the EU economic integration picked up when the bloc's remaining members had their cross-border investment increased by 43 percent in 2019. 
zh-cn	比如，虽然英国在脱欧，欧盟经济一体化的程度在2019年依然有所加深。这一年除英国外的其他欧盟国家间跨境投资增长了43%。

en-us	Brexit even spurred more British investment in Europe with an increase of 12 percent. 
zh-cn	英国对欧洲其他国家的投资也增长了12%。 

en-us	And we are not even talking about the biggest story of our day: The trade in services, like data. 
zh-cn	我们还没谈到时下最热的贸易类别：服务业，比如数据的交易。

en-us	After all, these days we are more likely to stream Shakira's music on our phone or watch Leonardo Dicaprio online than to buy a CD or DVD. 
zh-cn	毕竟，生活在今天的我们更多时候会在手机上听夏奇拉的音乐或上网看莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥的电影，而不是去购买光盘或影碟。 

en-us	Cross-border data flows spiked in the past decade. 
zh-cn	过去十年，跨境数据交易激增。

en-us	So were royalties and licensing fees that are among the fastest-growing trade item globally.
zh-cn	同样激增的还有版税和许可费贸易，这些都是全球增长最快的贸易类别。

en-us	And to speak nothing of the fact that people want to travel. 
zh-cn	另外，爱旅行是很多人的天性。

en-us	And there's quite some pent-up demand for that. 
zh-cn	被疫情抑制的出行需求是相当巨大的。 

en-us	So, we are living in a global community of shared future. 
zh-cn	没错，我们今天确实生活在一个命运共同体当中。

en-us	And when this crisis is over, we may find new confirmation of what we always heard about globalization: It is easy to hate and impossible to stop.
zh-cn	当这场疫情危机过去之后，我们或许会发现更多证据来佐证那个常被说起的道理：全球化容易成为攻击的靶子，但它前进的趋势是无法阻挡的。