![]() ![]() The United States has only a short window to come to grips with and act on the new foundation of global power. Just as IT has reversed the relative value of physical- and information-based businesses in the past decade, in the next decade, IT will invert the effectiveness of physical- and information-based Great Power policies and politics. Information, not physical resources, is now the foundation of geopolitical power. policymakers recognize and act on the new reality. entrepreneurs and laboratories develop it. entrepreneurialism and technology will eventually overcome China’s aggressive information policy-something that cannot happen so long as China continues to steal technology as fast as U.S. defense policy remains wedded to the quixotic Cold War–era notion that U.S. Meanwhile, although recognizing the problem on paper, U.S. This change has been affecting the global balance of power in favor of China for over a decade but is about to enter a dramatic new phase as China pours state-managed resources into new technologies-most critically, 5G wireless communication, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence (AI)-with the goal of increasing its control over the global flow of information. It argues that the foundation of geopolitical power has shifted from industrial output to information control. This chapter focuses on the critical role of IT in current geopolitics. defense resources generally go toward industrial era capabilities, and America’s strategy remains fixed on winning industrial era battles. Government defense policy has been slow to respond to the changing foundations of global power. commercial interests and the Chinese government, U.S. China has focused vast military and commercial resources on stealing its adversaries’ intellectual property, infesting their critical infrastructure with malware, and conducting social media–based influence campaigns at home and abroad. It has poured billions of dollars into key information technologies and bankrolled its so-called private company Huawei’s schemes to dominate global information infrastructure. private businesses, China’s government has seen and acted on this new IT reality. defense contractors with its cash on hand. Apple Incorporated alone could buy all five major U.S. IT companies are worth 70 times as much as the top three U.S. businesses were quick to recognize and act on this change. Over the past few decades, and as observed in the chapter 4 discussion of the fourth industrial revolution, the foundation of Great Power wealth and competitive advantage has fundamentally changed from one dominated by industrial era technology to one in which information technology (IT) has become the primary source of geopolitical power. If the United States does not prevent China from dominating global flows of information, China will attain a clear advantage in its rise to replace the United States as the world’s leading Great Power. The United States has a short window to contest China’s state-led ascent in these technologies, as well as in the underlying conditions that are allowing China to outpace the United States in this wider field. ![]() China is currently investing heavily in three critical new information technologies-5G wireless, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence-that, as part of its information strategy, will vastly increase its control of the global information flow. Where control of industrial resources was once the key to geopolitical power, today control of information resources is most important. Choosing one or the other is a matter of your current goal in the game.Over the past few decades, the foundation of Great Power competition has changed. In short, you can either defend your town hall and leave several resources on the outs or you can place the town hall outside of the walls and protect more resources instead. Two strategies are most common in this respect and they both revolve around the positioning of the town hall. ![]() You must, therefore, establish viable priorities in order to plan a successful defense. ![]() As such, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to protect everything in case of an attack. Especially when it comes to the wall, you’ll quickly notice that there is nowhere near enough of it to go around. You have a restricted number of wall pieces to work with and the same applies to your towers, garrisons, and other defensive buildings. In DomiNations, all defensive resources are limited. The basic functions of these new buildings are relatively unchanged, however, and their common denominator remains that they must survive long enough to deal actual damage to the invaders. As you advance beyond the Classical Age, additional buildings become available to keep your village in step with technological developments. ![]()
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