[otabdeveloper4]

> independent of any third party

You need third parties to cash in and cash out, so no.

> Can you imagine the US's response to digitally interlinking with China or Russia?

Before the internet we had the phone network, and before that the mail. Both of those are more interlinked and more open than the internet is today.

[somenameforme]

You do not need a third party - that's one of the many great things about this. You can go download (or compile, or make) software right now to generate a completely functioning Bitcoin wallet that you can then send/receive coins from.

[otabdeveloper4]

Bitcoin is not money, as its practitioners always say. You need a third party to convert it to money.