Great thoughts on the centrality of Christianity to current world civilization. Christianity is really the only one of all the religions that offers a sense of redemption for sins - not even Judaism does that. Somehow I think that frees Christians to trust others in economic transactions, though I am at a loss to further explain this hunch.
"The Chinese, for all their great flowering of enterprise are still pretty much stuck with the ruler's businesses and family businesses. The great Chinese businesses outside of China proper hit ceilings where they need to take on foreign CEOs or Financial officers and it doesn't work. The Family cannot learn to trust the foreigner and the foreigner cannot work well in such a milieu."
I worked for billionaire Cyrus Tang, richest asian American. Cheap bastard. I was writing software to manage his $30 million petty cash stock market position, but his white CFO couldn't handle paying the last $500 of the first installment. As you state, "the Family cannot learn to trust the foreigner"
Torah details how people are to treat one another' that a man's word should be his bond, which Jesus repeats and amplifies, and that one is to treat the foreigner the same way. Contrast that with Quran wherein it says that it is legitimate to lie to the infidel to gain something from him.