Week 7, to KM:

I appreciated your insights from the book this week. Particularily, it was astute of you to bring up the thorough-going effects of global trade and finance on the prosperity of developing nations. Those who have been players in the global trade and finance game have prospered and become more powerful as nations, whereas those nations keeping themselves out of the game (like you so appropriately pointed out North Korea has done) have held back their nations from growing and prosering as well as they could have.

I think that shows why it's all the more important for global opportunities economically to open to all nations, so that a few stronger nations don't just take all the power and wealth. We in the US, as the most powerful nation on the global playing field, need to be more compassionate and helpful to the poorer developing nations, so they can grow and prosper. The strongest nations have a responsibility to help level the playing field more for those less-powerful nations, because otherwise they instead force them all out by interacting ecnomically only with themselves.

I was also intrigued by your assertion that our group needs to be "considering expected economical powers because without the exact analysis of the social infrastructures of these powers, it could be impossible for us to accomplish our team purpose." I'm not sure I understood what you meant by that. Could you explain further, and suggest some examples of how we might go about such "exact analysis" for our project?