The reader should take away three broad concepts from this article. First, the geoeconomic domain will quite likely be the most critical arena for nation-state competition in the decades to come. Thus, it is important to understand the economic instruments of statecraft and their employment in pursuit of geopolitical objectives, but also to remain cognizant of their limitations. Second, the United States should continue to support the post-World War II liberal institutional RBIO. As Cordell Hall, Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of state, reasoned at the end of World War II, "if we could increase commercial exchanges among nations over lowered trade and tariff barriers and remove unnatural obstructions to trade, we would go a long way toward eliminating war itself" Finally, in two concluding thoughts from Blackwill and Harris: "National power depends above all on the performance of the local domestic economy and the ability to mobilize its resources" and "Nothing would better promote Americas geoeconomic agenda and strategic future than robust economic growth in the United States." The U.S. position in the world is not dependent on what does or does not happen in China, it depends on the economic policies and direction we set for ourselves here in the United States.
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机译：读者应该从本文中删除三个广义的概念。首先，在未来几十年中，地缘经济领域很可能成为民族国家竞争最关键的舞台。因此，在追求地缘政治目标时，重要的是要了解治国之道的经济手段及其运用，同时也要认识到其局限性。其次，美国应继续支持第二次世界大战后的自由机构RBIO。正如第二次世界大战结束时富兰克林·罗斯福（Franklin D. Roosevelt）国务卿科德尔·霍尔（Cordell Hall）所说：“如果我们能够通过降低贸易壁垒和关税壁垒来增加各国之间的商业往来，消除不自然的贸易障碍，那么我们将走很长一段路消灭战争本身”，最后，来自布莱克威尔和哈里斯的两个结论性思想：“国家力量首先取决于当地国内经济的表现以及调动其资源的能力”，以及“没有什么能比推动美国的地缘议程和战略前途更好的了美国经济的强劲增长。”美国在世界上的地位并不取决于中国发生或不发生的事情，它取决于我们在美国为自己设定的经济政策和方向。
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