These three countries understood it clearly. Or rather, leaders in countries like the Republic of Evia and the Republic of Goa had already seen it clearly: in today's world, without strength, you simply could not survive.
People used to say that business was like a battlefield, but the reverse was just as true—the battlefield was also like the marketplace.
Competition between nations was like competition between companies. A country like the United States was like a trust in its industry, holding a monopoly. To put it bluntly, the core competitiveness was all theirs, and they took most of the profits in the entire industry.
As for those Third World countries, they were like businesses struggling to survive in the cracks.
To use an even more straightforward analogy, the United States was like Apple in the mobile phone industry. Its market share might not necessarily be the highest, but its prestige was the highest, and it made the most profit. It created the industry, wielded enormous influence within it, and even had a group of die-hard fans.
China, on the other hand, was like Huawei, the kind that was desperately catching up. It might seem to have a chance of catching the leaders now, but there was still a gap in technological strength. It might even get utterly crushed.
The European Union and the Russians were like Samsung. Even if my market share was huge, I still had to watch what Daddy thought. Of course, this was not to say Samsung had to defer to Apple, but Samsung's largest shareholders and Apple's largest shareholders were pretty much the same group of people.
Tell me, Apple was Daddy's biological child, after all. Did an outsider like Samsung have to watch Daddy's mood or not? Even if their combined territory was vast and