I dont think his agenda has anything to do with american manufacturing or exports, he wants to change the bipolar or unipolar world order which is there since the end of 2nd world war. First it was b/w US and USSR then russia now china, he wants to change that. He envisioned a world with many regional superpower, engulfing small nations like armenia or sri lanka, a world with only superpowers, a more ordered one where no tiny nation have say in it. Like India in south asia, china in east asia, and usa in both the continents. Atleast this is what left to the centre media is saying all over the world.
Combat greatly improved compared to past AC games which had really bad combat. Yasuke combat can get boring after a while but Naoe combat never gets old. She shines in both stealth and meele combat and has lot of tools available in her kit to make combat lot of fun.
^^Combat is more indepth than any AC games in past. Video shows every aspect of Shadows combat.
Kusarigama Sickle chain that Naoe uses is easily my favourite weapon in the game. It becomes crazy good aftrr u invest in the build specific to the weapon.