“…Global Sydney is essentialized in its knowledge capacity. The global Sydney thesis has been argued and testified by international and local writers (see Friedmann, 1986Friedmann, , 1995Searle, 1996Searle, , 1998Baum, 1997;Beaverstock, Taylor, & Smith, 1999;Godfrey & Zhou, 1999;Connell, 2000;Daly & Pritchard, 2000;Taylor, 2004;McNeill, Dowling, & Fagan, 2005;Searle & Valence, 2005;Fagan, 2000;Taylor et al, 2011;Hu, 2012a;Hu, Blakely, & Zhou, 2013). Likewise, economic globalization is the core of the global Sydney thesis, focusing on its capacity of providing global services that are knowledge-based.…”