There need not be a single "who" behind it in as much as a set of convergent processes with the same goal of control and power. It is coordination of the kind

There need not be a single "who" behind it in as much as a set of convergent processes with the same goal of control and power. It is coordination of the kind of "going after the Joneses", because Chinese get away with it and gave useful results, so can we, ethics and long term effects be damned.