This week's consoomer poll is about what type of materials we are currently, have already, or will be reading.
As per title, the mediums and subjects are up to choice: books, light novels, web novels, manga, comics, websites, etc.
Feel free to include as much detail as you wish, including any impressions if you care to share.
I've been perusing The National System of Political Economy by Freidrich List. It's about conducting nationalist trade wars and appears to be the inspiration for Qiao Liang's and Wang Xiangsui's Unrestricted Warfare.
Doesn't seem to be covered, but it's fairly applicable right now considering China's at war with India and they've used relations with Pakistan to broker presence, leveraging their lands and 1 of the deepest rivers in the world to dispatch troops.
This is in conjunction with the SE sea agreement that came out of seemingly nowhere but was being worked upon the better part of half a decade...
Everyone knows about the obvious IP theft and other underhanded means they've executed to get their current might, but it's still ongoing, extending into a decidedly more physical way. Just doesn't get attention. Even their dealings with Africa or the ME countries remains quiet.
I've barely gotten into it, but he's making a good argument that everyone is always in a state of economic war that requires protectionism, and, if you think you're not because you're the big kid on the block, you are losing that war.