Parag Khanna, argues in Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization that what is unfolding today with China’s expansion cannot be compared to colonization because countries are no longer invaded. Instead they are bought. “The path to wealth and peace is for trade to supersede the nation-state,” he writes. “We need a more borderless world because we can’t afford destructive territorial conflict, because correcting the mismatch of people and resources can unlock incredible human and economic potential. Human society is undergoing a fundamental transformation by which functional
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