So you have all of these ideas floating around about: We’re past the world of the Cold War, we’re past, the world of the Berlin Wall. And we’re now in a new world where it is going to be possible to rebuild politics around market competition. Instead, you just focus on being the most competitive market that you absolutely can be. And we see this entire plumbing for this new global economy becoming established. And the United States, which actually has been doing this in a much quieter and perhaps less threatening way to many countries, at least for decades, is, in fact, the country that is pushing this the hardest.

Source: New York Times January 29, 2026 17:05 UTC