Secrets and moats are mainly for entrenched internal interests at the expense of upstarts.
These promote in-fighting --- they don't really work toward global competitiveness --- unless you can convince others to be like US and handicap themselves too.
For the most part, China avoids playing this game. And unless we've got some better response than "tariffs", they're going to own world markets.
Make America poorer, dumber and less relevant --- this is where we are headed now.
Just trying to figure out the positive psychology of sharing*, how to reconcile that with the general idea of markets .. don't mind me.
(& maybe put a positive spin on autism?)
*there is something narcotic/creepy about the "abundance" mindset, which I haven't got a toehold on yet. It's like a Schelling point for people across the (political) spectrum who can't help trying to preemptively rationalize what their opponents would reflexively label fascism (or authoritarianism when they want to include China in the argument)
Secrets and moats were supposed to be for internal morale..
I was hoping you'd argue that China has maintained a healthy industrial society-level morale purely with material advantage (like US in 1940s?)