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Kedah anon, you should check this out

"Closely related to the fear of multipolarity is the widely held assumption that stability and prosperity require a single dominant power. But history also provides alternative models for preserving free trade in a multipolar system. The best example of this comes from the Indian Ocean. For centuries before the arrival of European colonial powers, the Indian Ocean was the world’s largest open oceanic trading system. Trade in the Indian Ocean was managed by a string of city states stretching from Malindi and Mombasa in East Africa to Hormuz and Aden in West Asia and Calicut, Malacca, and Makassar in today’s South and Southeast Asia."
https://archive.md/8MpdN