China has won the trade war. You cannot refine rare earths to support your military industrial combine. Trump can beg but it won't help. The US empire is no longer functionally viable.

Government is crucial to the wealth of nations. Nations like DNA, compete for territory and resources. Free enterprise cannot thrive where there is no security from external threats and where there are no consistent rules, laws and property rights.

Certainly jump onto the life raft Bitcoin provides. This will hasten the collapse of the US military industrial combine and its global hegemony.