<story><title>Jack Ma: &apos;If trade stops, war starts&apos;</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jack-ma-if-trade-stops-war-starts-2017-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhiteSource1</author><text>He wasn&amp;#x27;t the first. It&amp;#x27;s the whole &amp;quot;Capitalist Peace&amp;quot; theory: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Capitalist_peace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Capitalist_peace&lt;/a&gt; proposed by Professor Erik Gartzke, that economically developed countries (capitalist - but in this case even something like China can qualify) don&amp;#x27;t fight with one another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adekok</author><text>&amp;gt; that economically developed countries (capitalist - but in this case even something like China can qualify) don&amp;#x27;t fight with one another.&lt;p&gt;France and Germany?  WW1 &amp;#x2F; WW2?&lt;p&gt;Japan and the US in WW2?  IIRC, at the time, Japan and the US were trade partners, and Japan imported the bulk of it&amp;#x27;s oil from the US.&lt;p&gt;Yet in both cases, they still went to war.&lt;p&gt;I think the lesson is that ideology trumps economics.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jack Ma: &apos;If trade stops, war starts&apos;</title><url>http://www.businessinsider.com.au/jack-ma-if-trade-stops-war-starts-2017-2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WhiteSource1</author><text>He wasn&amp;#x27;t the first. It&amp;#x27;s the whole &amp;quot;Capitalist Peace&amp;quot; theory: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Capitalist_peace&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Capitalist_peace&lt;/a&gt; proposed by Professor Erik Gartzke, that economically developed countries (capitalist - but in this case even something like China can qualify) don&amp;#x27;t fight with one another.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>John23832</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s pretty interesting. That also reminds me of what people have called &amp;quot;Pax Americana&amp;quot;[0] which is probably due to America&amp;#x27;s large influence on modern Capitalism.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pax_Americana&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Pax_Americana&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>