There are two kind of controls in the nature.

One is Human`s control over oxen and horses. Humans use violence, force, and fear to control oxen and horses. It is very reliable and successful. The US control over nations around the world is very much the same theory by using economic sanctions. This kind of control is cheap, suitable for controlling large amount of entities.

The other is  Human`s control over monkeys and dophins in circut. Humans use incentives, usually food to control monkey and dophins to lure them to do what humans want. Chinese culture, like Confucius teaching encourage the second one. But this one is very costable.

There are two control systems in the Universe. The West is using the first one, sometimes, a fix of the two. The chinese is using the second one always. If China wants to lead the world. China has to learn to hit the Western companies hard sometimes to balance their menance on so called issues, like human rights, environment, anything China see fit. Nature tells us all secret.