Where would China be without Western capital, Western export markets, and Western debt financing? Nowhere. China is merely a province in the global capitalist empire, and largely a backwater province at that. When the China opening came during the Nixon era, David Rockefeller was among the first to recognize Western capital could do business with these folks. The West has the same relationship with China today that it did with the Soviet Union in the early to the middle part of the 20th century (see Antony Sutton).

The 20th-century totalitarian regimes were largely the creation of Western capital as subordinate colonies. Soviet industrialization was made possible with Western finance and technology. Ditto the German military buildup of the 1930s. Mussolini was a Western ally who switched sides after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia was criticized (a prelude to the falling out between the US and Saddam Hussein over Kuwait). Western capital essentially used the Russian and Asian communists as mercenaries against the Axis powers, which led to the need to contain them during the Cold War, which led to the creation of the Takfiri insurgencies and Salafist regimes in Central Asia and the Middle East that are creating chaos today.