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US & Israel destroy international law in Gaza, while preaching 'rules-based order'
The US is backing Israel as it bombs Palestinian civilians in Rafah. Both are blatantly defying the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC). Ben Norton documents the hypocrisy of the Biden administration's claims to uphold the "rules-based international order" as it sponsors Netanyahu's crimes against humanity in Gaza.
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0:00 Intro
1:30 ICJ orders Israel to stop attacking Rafah
2:38 Israel bombs tent camp in Rafah
3:51 US & UK help Israel violate ICJ rulings
4:34 UN expert calls for sanctions on Israel
6:28 Netanyahu: "Nobody will stop us - not the Hague"
7:19 US threatens to sanction ICC
8:19 Israeli spy chief threatened ICC
9:23 Trump & Biden attack ICC
9:50 Hypocrisy of "rules-based order"
13:02 US House Speaker Mike Johnson threatens ICC
13:48 US "rules-based order" vs. international law-based order
14:40 UK PM Rishi Sunak praises "rules-based order"
15:00 Germany's hypocrisy on Israel
17:55 Western neocolonialism
23:58 China defends international law
26:16 Outro
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China & Russia strengthen friendship, blasting Western 'neocolonialism' & US militarism
Putin met with Xi Jinping in Beijing, where China and Russia released a joint statement blasting Western "colonialism and hegemonism", supporting a multipolar world and more representation for the Global South, and calling for de-dollarization and expansion of BRICS. Ben Norton analyzes the historic document.
Full text of the joint statement with links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/24/china-russia-joint-statement-new-era-75th-anniversary/
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:49 Putin's visit to China
1:42 Summary of the joint statement
4:58 Russia deepens economic integration with China
7:18 China expands trade with anti-hegemonic nations
8:50 Note on translation of joint statement
11:20 75th anniversary of China-Russia relations
13:46 Supporting Global South & multipolar world
17:58 Condemning Western neocolonialism & hegemony
20:49 Expanding cooperation
23:03 "True multilateralism"
25:14 Group of Friends in Defense of the UN Charter
27:35 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
28:33 Expanding BRICS
30:10 Nuclear weapons
30:33 Condemning US militarism
34:26 Climate change & pollution
36:01 Ukraine war
38:58 Non-interference
40:29 ASEAN
40:46 East Asia
41:33 North Korea
42:36 West Asia (Middle East) & Palestine
44:07 Afghanistan
45:18 Africa
46:25 Latin America
48:17 Outro
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How Wall Street buys US elections: Blackstone funds Trump, BlackRock backs Biden
While BlackRock veterans run Joe Biden's Treasury, Donald Trump's presidential campaign is financed by Wall Street's highest-paid CEO, of Blackstone, the world's largest commercial landlord. Ben Norton explains how Wall Street investment companies, asset managers, and banks essentially buy US elections.
TOPICS
0:00 Wall Street always wins US elections
0:57 Blackstone CEO funds Trump
2:58 BlackRock backs Biden
3:48 BlackRock vs Blackstone - What's the difference?
7:30 Wall Street's highest paid CEO, Stephen Schwarzman
10:15 Oil & gas industry moguls fund Trump
10:53 Fossil fuel profits tripled under Biden
13:15 Oligarchs back fellow billionaire Trump
15:14 Biden promised: "Nothing would fundamentally change"
15:54 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks & 67% of all wealth
17:23 USA is not a democracy; it's an oligarchy
18:43 Wall Street funded Barack Obama
19:20 Wall Street funded Mitt Romney
20:07 US government represents Wall Street
21:54 BlackRock veterans run Biden's Treasury
25:08 Goldman Sachs veterans ran Trump's Treasury
27:16 Blackstone: the largest landlord in the US (& on Earth)
30:53 De-industrialization & financialization
32:25 Private equity destroyed Toys“R”Us
33:11 Private equity firms buy up retirement homes, hospitals, vets
34:53 2008 crisis & subprime mortgages
37:22 Financial parasites
38:39 Outro
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Biden's tariffs on China expose US hypocrisy on 'free trade' & tech subsidies
The Joe Biden White House imposed high tariffs on Chinese technological products, including electric vehicles (EVs), solar panels, batteries, and semiconductors. Ben Norton analyzes the hypocrisy of US government accusations that Beijing provides unfair subsidies to its industries, while Washington is spending trillions on industrial policy -- and how this exposes the "free trade" dogma spread by neoliberal economists as a myth.
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0:00 Biden puts tariffs on China
1:05 Elon Musk demanded tariffs on Chinese EVs
1:55 US "overcapacity" allegations
2:40 Europe threatens tariffs too
3:19 Biden condemned tariffs in 2019
4:58 Climate change hypocrisy
6:13 "Free market" myth
8:47 "Forced" technology transfer myth
13:12 BYD outcompetes Tesla
13:56 Neoliberalism: de-industrialization & financialization
18:26 Subsidies: US gov't plans trillions in benefits
23:52 More tariffs on Chinese products
25:30 Washington Consensus
29:01 US destroys WTO (after creating it)
31:28 Protectionism: How US & UK really developed
39:39 Outro
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Iran's President Raisi joined BRICS, called to drop US dollar, pushed for multipolar world
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash, sought to unite the Global South against Western imperialism. He joined BRICS, advocated de-dollarization, supported Palestine, promoted a "Look East" strategy toward China and Russia, and allied with Africa and Latin America. Ben Norton analyzes the late Iranian leader's anti-colonial foreign policy.
Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/21/iran-raisi-brics-dollar-imperialism/
Topics
0:00 Raisi's death & Iran's future
2:51 Raisi's anti-colonial foreign policy
4:54 Palestine
6:10 Anti-imperialism
8:42 BRICS
10:53 Dedollarization
11:45 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
12:46 "Look East" strategy
13:19 China
18:11 Russia
20:02 Indonesia
20:42 Africa
23:32 Latin America
28:40 Nicaragua & Iran: sister revolutions
33:08 Outro
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US threatens ICC, warning 'If they [prosecute] Israel, we're next!'
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for an arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu over crimes against humanity in Gaza. The Biden administration is threatening sanctions on Prosecutor Karim Khan. US Senator Lindsey Graham warned, "if they'll do this to Israel, we’re next!" Ben Norton discusses Washington's extreme hypocrisy and shows the real face of the so-called "rules-based international order".
Intro
0:00 "We're next!"
0:15 ICC seeks to arrest Israeli officials
1:50 US gov't threatens ICC
4:08 Lindsey Graham quote: "if they'll do this to Israel, we’re next!"
5:01 Protest
5:27 Bipartisan barbarism
6:57 Karim Khan dropped previous investigation into US/NATO war crimes
8:26 Both sides-ism
9:35 ICC charges against PM Netanyahu & DM Yoav Gallant
10:38 ICJ or ICC?
11:59 Western officials says ICC "was built for Africa"
12:39 Netanyahu responds: "No one will stop us"
13:16 20,000 US citizens in IDF
14:04 Israel is an outpost of the US empire
15:29 Biden, Blinken, & Republicans agree
16:54 Trump imposed sanctions on ICC
18:53 US hypocritically backs ICC charges against Putin
20:15 US & Israel: rogue states
22:57 Outro
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Mexico's AMLO has 80% approval, despite media lies & US meddling
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is one of the most popular leaders on Earth, with an 80% approval rating, according to polling firm Gallup. Ben Norton discusses how corporate media outlets have absurdly smeared him as "authoritarian", and the US government has funded right-wing opposition groups, meddling in Mexico's internal affairs, while the candidate Claudia Sheinbaum from AMLO's left-wing Morena party was on the verge of winning the election.
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0:00 80% of Mexicans support President AMLO
1:32 US government & media smear AMLO
3:15 Why is López Obrador so popular?
4:20 AMLO: "Mexico is not a US colony or protectorate!"
5:01 Mexico's natural resources & sovereignty
7:21 US meddles in Mexico's 2024 election
8:36 AMLO's successor Claudia Sheinbaum
10:06 "Democratic backsliding", or more democracy?
12:25 AMLO is twice as popular as Biden & Trump
13:41 Real minimum wage rose 83.5%
14:25 Rising real incomes
15:45 Falling poverty
17:05 Mexicans hopeful about economy (unlike in USA)
19:49 AMLO blasts US oligarchy & hypocrisy
20:40 AMLO supports Julian Assange
21:00 AMLO condemns US blockade of Cuba
21:51 Outro
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De-dollarization: China drops US Treasury bonds, instead buys gold, oil, metals
China is reducing its holdings of US Treasury securities. Instead, the People's Bank of China is buying gold, and Beijing prioritizes imports of important commodities like oil and metals. Ben Norton discusses the geopolitical impact of de-dollarization in the world's largest economy.
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0:00 Why countries are de-dollarizing
1:05 Russia & China
1:41 Brazil & China
2:18 Persian Gulf oil & gas
3:29 Central bank FX reserves
4:54 China drops US Treasurys
6:15 Debate in Beijing
8:40 Gold
9:37 Charts: China buys metals & oil
11:21 Strategic petroleum reserve
11:53 Belt & Road Initiative
12:50 East Asia funds US deficits
14:25 Global South funds Global North
15:25 Japan replaces China as top US creditor
16:03 US inflation, interest rates, bond yields, & debt
18:48 Outro
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US Senator Lindsey Graham says Israel should nuke Gaza
US Senator Lindsey Graham insisted in a TV interview that Israel should drop nuclear bombs on Gaza, where more than 2 million Palestinian civilians, including 1 million children, are trapped under what the Israeli defense minister called a “complete siege”. Ben Norton discusses Washington's complicity in crimes against humanity.
Atomic bombing of Japan was NOT necessary to end WWII. US gov't documents admit it: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/08/07/atomic-bombing-japan-not-necessary/
Links and sources here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/12/senator-lindsey-graham-israel-nuclear-weapons-gaza/
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:31 Lindsey Graham says Israel should nuke Gaza
1:11 Fact check
1:59 Israeli minister called to nuke Gaza
3:55 Crimes against humanity
4:47 US support is bipartisan
5:26 Israel's nuclear weapons
6:45 Israel offered nukes to apartheid South Africa
9:05 US atomic bombing of Japan was not necessary
13:10 Outro
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How the dollar's 'exorbitant privilege' enriches the USA (and global elites)
How much does the US benefit from printing the global reserve currency? An economist calculated that US average daily income would fall by 27-57% if the dollar lost its "exorbitant privilege". Ben Norton explains how wealthy investors not only in North America but around the world hold much of their wealth in the dollar.
Link to Philip Pilkington's report and Twitter account: https://twitter.com/philippilk/status/1782409654519128497
Topics
0:00 US dollar dominance
2:00 Economics of exorbitant privilege
5:23 Current account
9:29 Balance of payments
12:31 Effects of dollar hegemony
14:45 Neoliberalism & financialization
17:41 Foreign capital funds US deficits
19:28 Global 1% invests in US assets
20:35 Super Imperialism
22:25 Fed inflates asset bubbles
25:22 De-industrialization in West
28:06 Industrialization in BRICS
28:57 Investment & FDI
33:08 Wages & manufacturing
35:00 Re-industrialization?
38:16 Outro
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Is Japan in crisis as yen crashes? Or is USA exporting its economic problems?
Japan's currency the yen has fallen significantly against the dollar. It its economy in crisis? What is the role of US interest rates, inflation, debt, and deficits? What about China? Ben Norton explains the complex geoeconomic situation.
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:40 Yen plunges against US dollar
3:32 Rising exports, falling imports
4:40 Did Germany overtake Japan?
5:58 Nominal GDP is misleading
7:27 PPP is much more accurate
9:25 Misunderstanding GDP figures
10:53 US deficits & debt drive GDP growth
12:37 Strong US dollar
13:58 Industrialization & manufacturing
15:31 Current account
16:15 US Treasury securities
18:09 Why is the yen falling?
18:43 Interest rates
20:37 Bond yields
23:28 Why doesn't Japan raise interest rates?
23:50 Japan's debt
26:18 Inflation
29:32 US Treasurys
30:29 De-dollarization: China drops US bonds
33:14 TL;DW (conclusion)
35:07 Outro
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Xi Jinping blasts US/NATO for bombing China's embassy in Serbia
While visiting Serbia, China's President Xi Jinping condemned the US and NATO for bombing Beijing's embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1999. Ben Norton discusses why Washington launched the attack, and lied about it. Then Ben analyzes China-Serbia relations and the Belt and Road Initiative.
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US politicians threaten to invade Int'l Criminal Court if Israel faces war crimes charges
US Senators sent a letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, threatening to impose sanctions and even invade the Hague if it issues arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Biden administration is also pressuring the ICC not to charge Israeli officials over their war crimes in Gaza. Ben Norton discusses Washington's deep hypocrisy.
Sources and links: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/07/us-threat-icc-israel
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:48 US politicians threaten ICC
2:26 Trump sanctioned ICC
3:17 Biden's hypocrisy
3:56 Republican senators' letter to ICC
6:47 Hague Invasion Act
8:44 Israel's gen0c1de in Gaza
9:48 Israel unleashed famine in Gaza
10:37 Israeli minister demands "total annihilation" of Gaza
11:26 Amalek
13:16 US hypocrisy on ICC warrant for Russia's Putin
14:51 Africa criticizes ICC
15:42 US/Israel lobbied for ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan
16:46 US & Israel refuse to join ICC
17:02 ICC vs ICJ
18:40 Save face, or save your empire?
21:13 Outro
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Biden signs law to ban TikTok: Latest attack in US economic war on China
US President Joe Biden signed a law that will force TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app, or it will be banned in the US. Ben Norton explains how this is part of Washington's economic war, aimed at protecting Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley.
Topics
0:00 Biden signs law to ban TikTok
1:39 US tech war on China
5:00 India banned Chinese apps, giving US Big Tech total control
6:38 Protectionism or economic war?
8:30 Silicon Valley lobbied against TikTok
9:37 Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok... before doing 180
12:15 Role of Israel/Palestine/Gaza?
13:42 US trade war with Japan in 1980s
15:38 "Free market" hypocrisy
18:25 US does not truly want "competition" with China
19:39 Outro
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Cold War 2: US officials call to overthrow China's gov't, expand military budget to $1.4 trillion
A major Congress member and top former Trump administration official published an article calling to overthrow China's government. They boasted that the US is waging a bipartisan new cold war, backed by both Republicans and Democrats, while proposing a military budget of $1.4 trillion per year. Ben Norton debunks the deceptions of the warmongers in Washington.
CIA director calls China biggest ‘threat’, says Ukraine war benefits US geopolitically and economically: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/07/cia-director-china-threat-russia-ukraine-war/
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:07 2024 election
1:59 Council on Foreign Relations & CIA
3:30 Matt Pottinger & Mike Gallagher
5:07 US new cold war on China
8:21 Deceptively distorting Xi Jinping's speeches
12:50 Information warfare
16:00 Colonialism
17:32 Misquoting Chinese officials
20:29 Militarization of Asia
21:49 $1.37 trillion military budget
22:44 US domination of Asia
24:51 Recruit "cold warriors"
26:44 Regime change: Rollback, not just containment
28:05 Manufacturing consent for war
29:21 Outro
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US blocks UN from recognizing Palestine, while Israel attacks Iran
The US vetoed a resolution in the UN Security Council that called to recognize Palestine as a member state, while Israel launched attacks on Iran. Ben Norton shows how Washington is opposing peace.
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0:00 Intro
1:29 Israel attacks Iran
4:39 US vetoes Palestinian UN membership
7:31 What is Palestine's status at UN?
8:57 Which countries recognize Palestine?
10:18 "Two-state solution" hypocrisy
12:01 How USA prevents peace in Palestine
15:35 US defended South African apartheid at UN
18:30 South Africa's anti-apartheid leaders support Palestine
21:02 China supports Palestine
22:56 Russia supports Palestine
23:47 UNSC Gaza resolutions vetoed by US
25:53 US sponsors Israel's crimes against humanity
27:23 Outro
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Iran had legal right to counter-attack Israel in self-defense
Israel attacked Iran's embassy in Syria on April 1, in a blatant act of war. Iran had a legal right to respond in self-defense, according to article 51 of the UN Charter, which is exactly what it did by launching missiles and drone strikes on April 13. But Western governments are absurdly portraying Tehran as the aggressor. Ben Norton explains.
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:11 Israel attacked Iran first
2:50 Biden & Sunak erase history
3:57 US, UK, France blocked UN Security Council condemnation
5:14 Iran invoked article 51 of UN charter
7:02 UN chief Antonio Guterres' hypocrisy
8:32 West is destroying international law
10:46 World War III?
12:25 Outro
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Is China producing too much? US 'overcapacity' accusations: new tactic in economic war
Washington accuses China of producing too many goods and demands "free market" policies. But the US government is spending trillions on industrial policy to protect its own manufacturing sector. Ben Norton details the hypocrisy of the "overcapacity" allegations: the latest strategy in the US economic war on China.
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:00 Chinese 'overcapacity' allegations
3:38 Janet Yellen
5:21 US vows to 'slow down China's rate of innovation'
8:02 Elon Musk begs for tariffs on Chinese EVs
10:40 US wants China to be economically subordinated
12:27 US tech war on China
14:39 Western industrial policy
16:31 Protectionism
18:38 US Inflation Reduction Act
20:12 US Chips Act
22:03 US undercapacity is the real problem
25:11 BYD has just 1.5% of EU EV market share
27:04 China's car exports vs Japan & South Korea
30:37 Is overcapacity a problem?
32:39 Outro
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West votes against rest of world in UN Human Rights Council
In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures). Ben Norton analyzes how the 14% of the population in the Global North constantly opposes the Global South, representing the Global Majority.
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CIA and Wall Street are taking over Argentina: President Milei sells off his country
Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei ordered his intelligence agency to give full power to the CIA, while the US spy agency's director is welcomed to Buenos Aires. Ben Norton discusses how self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" Milei withdrew from BRICS, allied with Israel, and is implementing neoliberal shock therapy, selling off the South American nation in mass privatizations, as most workers live in poverty.
Check out our related video "How extremist Javier Milei became Argentina's president: A story of debt, crisis, and empire": https://youtube.com/watch?v=FN6hoIb-QqA
Topics
0:00 Foreign meddling in Argentina
1:08 Javier Milei
1:41 CIA
3:24 Billionaire oligarch
4:03 Anarcho-capitalism
5:05 IMF
7:17 Inflation
8:25 Poverty
9:43 Israel
11:00 Milei's geopolitical alignment: US & Israel
11:33 BRICS
12:13 US corporations
13:32 Beat the status quo... by joining it
14:24 US-backed coup & dictatorship
18:24 Outro
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US sends troops & weapons to Taiwan. Is it preparing war on China?
The US government has sent troops to Taiwan, just a few kilometers from mainland China, while also selling billions of dollars of weapons and military equipment. Is Washington preparing for war? Ben Norton analyzes the geopolitical situation.
After Ukraine, US readies ‘transnational kill chain’ for Taiwan proxy war: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/03/01/ukraine-us-kill-chain-taiwan-war
Topics
0:00 Intro
2:15 US sends troops to Taiwan
3:45 Map of US troop location
4:39 US general threatens war on China
5:28 Nuclear weapons
7:03 US once had nukes in Taiwan
10:22 US "arms Taiwan to the teeth"
13:27 US military surrounds China
16:22 Pentagon's "kill chain for the Pacific"
18:23 Elon Musk's role
19:19 US military interoperability with Taiwan
20:57 Washington threatens Chinese sovereignty
22:58 US communiqués recognizing One China policy
27:46 US violates agreements
29:28 Parallels to Ukraine
31:48 Outro
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN human rights expert explains
Israel is carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people and "systematic destruction of every aspect necessary to sustain life in Gaza", United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese detailed in her report titled "Anatomy of a Genocide". Ben Norton analyzes the political context.
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The economics of imperialism: Can the Global South resist Western exploitation? Can China help?
The world economy is structured in an unjust way in which the West drains the wealth of the Global South. Ben Norton discusses the economics of imperialism - and how China has partially reversed it.
China is now the 'world's sole manufacturing superpower'. How did it develop so fast?: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production/
Topics
0:00 Global inequality
1:45 The China exception
3:01 World-systems analysis
4:37 Prebisch-Singer thesis
6:55 Dependency theory & commodity supercycles
8:27 Unequal exchange
11:01 Haiti & Honduras: Wage suppression in the periphery
13:57 New International Economic Order
15:22 China & the Asian Tigers
19:27 The Global South rebels
22:41 South Africa's President Ramaphosa on industrialization
25:13 Indonesia's economic development
26:34 (Neo)colonialism in Indonesia
29:29 Indonesia bans raw mineral exports
32:18 Protectionism (for the West, not for the rest)
37:38 China helps Indonesia industrialize
42:04 The myth of Chinese "imperialism"
43:04 India's economy vs. Indonesia's
46:41 China's South-South integration
49:33 Outro
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US can't compete with China's technology, so it wages economic war
Why is the United States waging economic war on China? Ben Norton discusses how China became the world's industrial superpower and a leader in important technologies, why the US is unable to compete, and the clash between Western neoliberal capitalism and Chinese socialism.
Check out our related video:
China is now the 'world's sole manufacturing superpower'. How did it develop so fast?: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production/
Topics
0:00 Bipartisan US economic war
2:19 China is world's #1 manufacturer
4:28 Clash of systems
6:29 Elon Musk laughed at Chinese competitors. Now they're beating him.
9:27 TikTok: Why US wants to ban it
10:56 EU threatens tariffs on China
11:20 West's hypocrisy on climate change
12:25 Solar panels: China installs more than rest of world combined
13:46 Clean energy is top driver of China's growth
14:56 China leads world in green transition
16:57 Neoliberal West can't outcompete China's state-led industrial development
18:27 The death of "free market" dogma
20:31 The myth of "free trade"
23:23 US opposes industrial policy when China does it
29:10 "Washington Consensus" failed, Washington admits
38:01 Ronald Reagan's trade war on Japan
43:25 Outro
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‘Western dominance has ended’, EU foreign-policy chief admits, warning of ‘West against the Rest’
The European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, admitted that the “era of Western dominance has indeed definitively ended”. He warned that the EU must not divide the world into “the West against the Rest”, as “many in the ‘Global South’ accuse us of ‘double standards’”. Ben Norton analyzes the historic shift.
Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/26/western-dominance-ended-eu-josep-borrell/
Related videos:
- EU confesses 'our prosperity was based on China & Russia': cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market/
- West votes against democracy, human rights, cultural equality at UN; promotes mercenaries, sanctions: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/11/26/west-vote-democracy-human-rights-un-sanctions/
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0:00 "Western dominance has ended"
2:41 Europe's "prosperity was based on China and Russia"
4:05 West vs. the Rest
5:07 Ukraine and NATO
7:05 Europe becoming US "vassal"
8:06 West votes against rest of world at UN
12:44 US-led imperialist system
18:58 Terms "Global South" and "West"
24:54 Outro
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