This guest article was written by William Laraque who is the Managing Director of US-International Trade Services.
Geopolitical hegemony and nation-building today are principally accomplished through e-commerce. No, not with just selling on such e-commerce platforms as Alibaba and Amazon, but with fully integrated e-commerce platforms. Several developments support this assertion:
- Koch Industries are investing $2 billion in Infor.
- Fintech firms Tencent and Alipay, both closely linked to e-commerce platforms, are now processing more financial transactions than the largest Chinese banks.