Meet the New Agents of Globalization

摘要

Last summer, after months of waiting, Chinese internet users finally got access to the online game Fortnite. So YouTube star Alastair Aiken, aka "Ali-A," did what many of his more than 15 million largely teenage followers around the world fantasized about. He navigated around firewalls and language barriers and logged on to a desolate corner of the Fortnite universe in China. "This is all a crazy experiment," declared the Brit in a video streamed from his home. One of the world's highest-paid professional online gamers, he was setting out to battle unwitting new rivals in a far-off land. "Obviously, China have had games for ages, so it's not like they are going to be utterly terrible or trash at Fortnite," he said as he launched into his first Chinese firefight. "But..."