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| | |Modern globalism period | ||
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* after the collapse of the Soviet Union, all nations were more free to trade and invest in each other | |||
* China, especially, embraced the new conditions and opened itself as a manufacturing base | |||
** other countries also experienced rapid economic growth | |||
* however, wars, disease, famines, persist into the world of today, including | |||
** US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq wars | |||
** civil wars in Africa, Myanmar, eastern Europe | |||
** political instability across the Mideast | |||
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