Actually the destruction was headed for us when billions of people overseas were going to rapidly develop to our level of technology. There’s only a few hundred

Actually the destruction was headed for us when billions of people overseas were going to rapidly develop to our level of technology. There’s only a few hundred million of us and over a billion more of them. The US positioned itself to be in the best possible posture as the market leader through setting the terms early to benefit themselves just enough, but also lenient enough to keep our real pressures for disruption. There’s a good Frontline episode with Kissinger about granting China MFN status. He clearly saw the writing on the wall.