> I should not have said “other countries” in my original post. There are, currently, no other countries than China and the U.S. in terms of scale and influence

> I should not have said “other countries” in my original post. There are, currently, no other countries than China and the U.S. in terms of scale and influence. One might perhaps reasonably compare the EU, which I would suggest is somewhere between the US and China on the where the control lies.