I came to the same conclusion. Some additional context which may be helpful to make the point a bit clearer: > that McKinsey & Company was "the most well-known

I came to the same conclusion. Some additional context which may be helpful to make the point a bit clearer: > that McKinsey & Company was "the most well-known, most secretive, most high-priced, most prestigious, most consistently successful, most envied, most trusted, most disliked management consulting firm on earth". Or, in other words, they help shape policy for business and governmental organizations in the US and the larger western world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company They can make money or gather power based off the mutual distrust between China and the Western world, which is an example of the Prisoner's dilemma or a "divide and conquer" strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma