The framework is progress moves fastest with a global leveling and elimination of friction between markets.
Fundamentally I see this as American companies using government cheat codes instead of sharpening their game, just like with the Chinese electric cars 100% tax.
It stems from my critique of neoliberalism, the failure to invest in foundational societal systems that give an affordance to such positioning: education, mass transit, health care, maternity leave, preschool funding, scholastic enrichment, the stuff that most of Asia is great at we're lousy at.
Chinese people aren't like genetically superior, they just spent the past 50 years investing in their people instead of taking things away and fighting stupid wars.
And these are the chickens coming home to roost just like they did for Hungary, the UK, and Spain.
We've been fucking up for decades and racism isn't going to fix it.