AT SOME POINT SO CALLED TRADE UNDER MONOPOLY MARKET CAPITALISM CEASES REALLY TO BE TRADE AT ALL AND BECOMES

Appeasement, or say sanctions, blockade, or third and fourth alternatives.

Since 1970, the list of entities requiring appeasement in Asia has lengthened well beyond Japan, etc.

Terms search: eg Steingart, Chalmers Johnson, Prestowitz, etc.

Re ' Gibbon ', leverage, etc. , cf.  Ch. 1, Trading Places, 'The End Of The American Century', the prefatory quote:

" 'It is much harder to nullify the results of an economic conquest than those of a military conquest.' 

Korekiyo Takahashi, 1936"