In all noteworthy governments a rich people / ruling class gets to buy best products. It doesn't matter if you live in social democratic, republic nation or in authoritarian regime / communist society where the wealth and power is centered to small group of people.
And we have been already fighting for the resources since the start, it's just not make sense for individuals to fight for them anymore, as it would just destroy countries from inside. Together we are stronger, so it's the countries that fight over them.
To be fair, that is true for car manufacturing and phone manufacturing in most cases. Whatever requires a chip basically, like GPU's for example. Because if you need to buy chips, you are going the giants like Nvidia and car companies and all of that, instead, you have to build your own, which costs 20+ billion dollars, and takes many years of R&D which you may never catch up.
So why deal with that business, when you can just get it from other nations for cheap, put low tariffs on those special items, and get it for cheap. Hell, some people around the world (forgot the nation, was it Thailand?) can get iphones cheaper than Americans. Because chips are near, factories are near, so it's cheaper that way instead of traveling all through many oceans.