It's painful to see the article lay out the pieces but leave the puzzle unfinished like this. The PRC's leadership would have no desire to upend the existing international order if this "order" wasn't so intent on choking off any attempt at Communism.

The fact that the ideal wall street company is one with endlessly scalable profits but no capital assets is merely a confirmation of the labor theory of value. It means that capitalism is fundamentally incapable of maintaining or growing production beyond narrow horizons, except in the circumstance of genocide/prinitive accumulation, which the article unironically posits as a solution by invoking the settlement of the western United States.

I guess this is just the limit of how far a liberal can go, no matter how materialist their analysis is.