新航路的问世开创了大西洋时代。在长达几个世纪的漫长历史中,大西洋一直是世人关注的中心。本世纪七十年代后期,形势发生逆转,太平洋区域尤其是西太平洋发展中国家作为一个整体,十分活跃,持续地保持强劲的增长势头,不少国家产业升级已经步入新兴工业国家或准工业国家行列;其他发展中国家经济发展在调整中也取得了大踏步的进展;美苏近来在远东地区的对抗增加了偏向太平洋的法码;苏联工业的远东化;美国的经济布局也朝着有利于太平洋的方向转化;加利福尼亚“硅谷”的形成,使西南部变为“阳光地带”,崛起 The advent of the new route created the Atlantic era. In the long history of centuries, the Atlantic has always been the center of world attention. In the late 1970s, the situation reversed. The Pacific region, especially the developing countries in the Western Pacific as a whole, enjoyed a very active and sustained strong growth momentum. Many industrial upgrades have entered the industrialized or quasi-industrialized countries Ranks; the economic development of other developing countries made great strides during the adjustment; the recent confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Far East has increased the bias towards the Pacific; the Far Easternization of the Soviet Union’s industry; and the economic layout of the United States has also moved in favor of the Pacific Ocean The formation of the “Silicon Valley” in California, the southwest into a “sunshine zone”, the rise