Wealth nowadays is not rare resources but information crystalized as products and knowledge not easily transferred to other places. A computer is made out of w

Wealth nowadays is not rare resources but information crystalized as products and knowledge not easily transferred to other places. A computer is made out of worthless silicon but it is not the silicon that gives the computer value, it is simply the way that silicon is configured and the knowledge on how to reproduce such a configuration. War nowadays cannot transfer such wealth across national boundaries. We live in the information age, but it is not just about the internet. Information is about low entropy configurations of what is otherwise cheap materials into these things called technology. If china wanted Americas technology how would they retrieve it? Not war, but through espionage. The cold war beginning with Russia has largely replaced actual physical battle.