By Nirmal P. Acharya

Countries all over the world are busy doing business with each other every day. But only the US can make a super business: the super business of reaping the world and making a good living without working. But this business may not last long.

As long as the dollar is the world's currency, the US can easily harvest the world with dollar tides alone. However, dollar hegemony must be supported by US military hegemony, which in turn must be supported by super-industrial capabilities. Nevertheless, who wants to work in the industry when you can make money printing dollar bills? It is in this logical and causal chain that the US unwittingly achieved its "deindustrialization."

At the same time, China, under the oppression of the US hegemony, had to do the hardest and most tiring work but therefore rose to become the world's largest industrialized country. China's industrial capabilities will completely rewrite the shape of warfare.

Take drones and mechanical dogs, which with China's current industrial capacity can be produced in unlimited quantities. In future wars, drones and mechanical dogs, with the will to go to war without return, will overwhelming the enemy. All previous theories and forms of war were immediately invalidated.

In fact, the American ruling elite knows that it is impossible to defeat China by war, otherwise, the US will immediately find any excuse to launch a war against China. That is why US President-elect Donald Trump has publicly said that "the United States and China together can solve all the problems in the world."

President Trump's statement shows that the US has realized that if it wants to continue to do its super business, it has to bring China into the fold, otherwise, its super business can no longer be done. However, will China be the little brother of the US and follow the US to do that super business? We'll just have to wait and see.

Under such circumstances, does the US Indo-Pacific strategy of encircling China still make any sense? Does MCC still have a bright future as part of the Indo-Pacific strategy? We'll just have to wait and see.