US-China Competition and System Design
In times as tight as these, you come to feel that there are structural problems that individual effort alone cannot explain—high prices, technological fragmentation, shrinking capital flows. At the center of it all lies the strategic competition between the United States and China.
US-China Competition and System Design
In times as tight as these, you come to feel that there are structural problems that cannot be explained by individual effort alone. High prices, technological fragmentation, the contraction of capital flows—all of these are the result of cracks in the world order bleeding into everyday life. At the center of it lies the strategic competition between the United States and China.
This competition is not a simple struggle for hegemony; it is ushering in an era of supply-chain realignment that spans technology, energy, finance, and security. A sudden thaw is unlikely, but conflict alone cannot sustain order. The realistic equilibrium is **'Managed Competition.'**
• Restoring cooperation in highly public domains such as climate, infectious disease, and financial stability
• Acknowledging interdependence in strategic industries such as semiconductors, food, and pharmaceuticals
• Turning each nation's period of transition into an opportunity for cooperation
If this shift takes place, supply chains will partially recover, global innovation will reconnect, and middle powers like Korea will gain a chance to act as strategic balancers.
But no individual can change the world order. What a system designer can do, instead, is restore trust through **small loops.** What I am designing is exactly that kind of structure.
Maeum Direct (M-DI)
So that subcontractors can be paid fairly and on time, I am designing a legitimacy loop of "raising the issue → evidence → approval → feedback." This is not mere record-keeping; it is a mechanism for building a Win-Win structure that both prime contractors and subcontractors can reasonably accept.
SunSet
In an emotionally oversaturated society, it offers a space for self-reflection rather than comparison, through an emotional loop of "question → record → reward → looking back." Ethical emotional data becomes the foundation for an individual's self-trust and for global dialogue.
M-Care (concept stage)
Rather than leaving care and domestic work as 'invisible labor,' I am envisioning a structure that restores agency and dignity through record, recognition, and reward.
The more the order is shaken, the more what matters is not some grand solution but the restoration of small structures of trust. Technology is only a tool, but a structure imbued with philosophy can itself become a society's resilience.