National (or oligarchical) competition is far from dead, despite the vacuous, maudlin bromides about global unity that will never be true. Why would you expect

National (or oligarchical) competition is far from dead, despite the vacuous, maudlin bromides about global unity that will never be true. Why would you expect the US (or anyone else) not to drain other countries of their workers if it suits them? The emphasis is on "if". South Korea was transformed from a backwards rice farming country into a financially prosperous one not by draining Korea of Koreans, but in no small part because it was in the US's interest.