
Globalization: How Crises Change Our World (Part 2)
Smartphones connect the planet, yet the borderless world promised by the early internet never arrived. This second installment tracks globalization's fault lines through seven regions, examining how raw material battles, climate change, and digitalization reshape economies and alliances. TSMC CEO Mark Liu reflects on how the hopes of the internet age, that borders would dissolve and inequality would shrink, have failed to materialize, while footage and interviews trace the supply chains behind a single smartphone across multiple countries. The film follows rising tension between the United States and China as global production shifts from a pure search for cheap labor toward risk management and competition for technological dominance. It looks at stagnation in parts of Europe against faster-moving economies elsewhere, asking who benefits from this new arrangement and who is left behind. Interviews with executives, workers, and analysts ground the argument in specific industries and places rather than abstractions, building a picture of a world more interconnected and more fractured at the same time.