> or a Ukrainian soldier who has to deal with drones built with Chinese components

man you're gonna be disappointed when you learn where the components for Ukrainian drones come from (spoiler alert, it's China 95% of Ukrainian drone manufacturers use Chinese components. Both Ukrainian and Russian drones are Chinese components glued together, the vendors in China literally stagger Russian and Ukrainian buyers on the factory floors to not have them run into each other). The largest trade partner of Vietnam and the Phillipines is China.

The kind of thinking that assumes that rivalry implies deglobalization or bloc politics is exactly what's 30 years out of date. It's projecting how Americans think on the entire world, but that's not how the world works any more. The rest of the world continues to globalize, even through war.

America is undergoing Sovietization and erecting an Iron Curtain, and China ironically enough is simply doing what the US used to do. If Americans think the rest of the world will follow them into isolation they're going to make the same discovery the Russians did in the last century.