china for example is 1.5 billion people strong and over half work in US owned factories for an average of 24 cents an hour. BUT china's economy is growing at a rate of 10% annually while the US is growing at 2-3% so eventually within our lifetime china will overtake the US in production and eventually become around 30% of international GDP while the US while remain around 10%. Taiwan, japan, and south korea will overtake us in computer technologies as well, currently Taiwan is the leading manufacturer of micro chips while japan continues to lead in manufacturing robotics and surprisingly vehicles. south korea is following up on comp tech as well. the point here is that every country is becoming interdependent on each other. for example the US won't bomb china because for one they own our factories lol and china won't bomb us because we're their customers. with comp tech and communication advances there really is no benefit to war.