Hello Yuri

Thanks a lot that you took your time and answered my post:)

Globalization is a threat in many ways - I fully agree.
It creates too many disadvantages and falls short when it comes down to develop countries and people.
It is like "the winner takes it all" - I am afraid...

It will take some time to overcome the downsides of this worldwide system or the idea behind it:

They say that you should produce goods where it has the lowest prize.

That is good for many things - but it has vast consequences as we are seeing now in the actual pandemic.
As soon as a production line in a far away country cannot produce anymore due to an outbreak of corona or harsh measures to battle this disease, theese products can't be produced anymore and - like it is often the case - can't be replaced by products of other countries on short notice.

So we have to find solutions to guarantee a certain independency in terms of crucial and basic products, in my view.

As for the standards imposed by the so called international society:
Would you mind explaining what you mean by that?

In my view, cultural diversity is a very important thing and should be respected. So it can't be a good idea to standardise the whole world. I fully agree on that.

I only wanted to point out that nationwide / wordlwide challenges need cooperation at least to a certain extent. Some developments can't be avoided and don't stop at the borders of our countries...

Please, Yuri, forgive me for replying not as quickly as you might have expected.

I am a bit busy at my new post - many things to adapt to in a relatively short time;)
But all in all I think it was a good decision to take on this job.
I'll tell you more about it later.

Have a good weekend!

Best

Urs