Peaceful development is a beautiful imagination!
The current social structure is designed, if you want to climb up from the bottom, you'll occupy more resources of the Earth...
The two Washington Consensuses, the privatization tide, and the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union, all these events led the world into a unipolar mode.
After World War II, America, the world's largest industrial nation, dismantled the Bretton Woods System, then discovered the wonders of money, and the transfer of industrial capital began.
America leveraged its invincible military to bind NATO and then maximized the global influence of its financial industry.
By then, they no longer wanted to engage in low-end labor...
A large amount of manufacturing began to transfer to places around the world where labor was relatively cheaper, and the post-war world order was thus established, making globalization a major topic.