Geopolitical Economy Report

A comprehensive global survey found that people in most countries see the United States as the biggest threat to the world, and they prefer China over the US. Ben Norton analyzes the results of the Democracy Perception Index.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UhHqPGFGos

Topics
0:00 Shifting global political order
1:35 Democracy Perception Index
3:08 USA is biggest threat to world
4:25 US military bases unpopular
5:36 Negative perception of USA
6:25 China more popular than US
8:07 US war against Iran
9:06 Israel-Palestine
9:40 Ukraine war
10:14 Taiwan
11:14 Greenland
11:54 Countries progressing
13:15 Democracy
17:33 USA is an oligarchy
20:20 End of end of history
21:15 Outro

The US government is desperate to create a new supply chain that cuts out China, through its Pax Silica initiative. To do so, the Trump administration plans to colonize the territory of the Philippines, a supposed "ally" run by corrupt leader Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, with a 99-year colonial concession. Ben Norton explains the controversy.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=302uQhql3kY

Topics
0:00 Intro
0:35 Cold War Two
1:50 US-India critical minerals deal
2:55 Pax Silica
3:41 US meddling in Philippines
4:55 Corrupt Marcos dynasty
6:36 US military bases & missiles
8:38 US colonial plan
10:37 Colonial 99-year leases
12:11 US colonialism
13:31 China "threat" narrative
14:34 Exploiting natural resources
15:39 US official Jacob Helberg
16:16 Silicon Valley oligarchs
17:39 US official freaks out
19:57 Neocolonialism
23:58 Comprador leaders
25:21 Poverty & development
28:31 Outro

It has become so widely accepted that the US lost the war with Iran that now even American neoconservative hawks admit it. Ben Norton explains why major neocons like Robert Kagan and Bill Kristol have turned against the war. They lament that Iran's victory reflects the decline of the US empire and the transition to a more multipolar world order.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrlXNHSCfoQ

Topics
0:00 USA lost war with Iran
1:47 Poll: war is unpopular
2:42 Media admits USA lost
3:32 Iran still has most missiles
4:39 Iran withstands US blockade
5:21 Iran destroyed US bases
6:03 US hawks admit the truth
7:25 Neocons and PNAC
9:13 George W Bush admin
9:55 Neoconservatism
11:30 Rise of Donald Trump
12:00 Hillary Clinton
12:44 Victoria Nuland
13:41 Coup in Ukraine
15:29 (CLIP) US-backed coup
16:14 US "checkmate" in Iran
17:05 Decline of US hegemony
18:26 Iran has major leverage
19:22 US defeat
20:34 Neocons abandon ship
22:14 Poll: Americans oppose war
22:44 Poll: Americans say US lost
23:30 Crisis of US imperialism
23:57 Outro

Donald Trump said his visit to China was a success, but he failed to pressure Beijing to make any significant concessions. Ben Norton fact-checks the claims of the White House, showing how Washington's trade war backfired, hard, on the US economy.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtuYVMrXmAM

Topics
0:00 Trump's visit to China
0:41 US trade war
2:01 The trip was a failure
3:17 CEOs of US corporations
4:24 Iran & Strait of Hormuz
7:42 Trade & investment
9:14 Rare earth elements
11:58 Trade war failure
12:42 Boeing airplanes
13:52 Agricultural products
15:05 Nvidia & chips
18:19 USA failed
20:05 Trump's empty threats
20:35 Problems in US economy
22:38 Outro

Donald Trump took a trip to China to meet President Xi Jinping. He was joined by the CEOs of a dozen top US corporations, including billionaires Elon Musk, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Tim Cook of Apple, Larry Fink of BlackRock, and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone.

Ben Norton explains how Beijing won the trade war that was started by Washington, how China has significant leverage (in manufacturing, supply chains, critical minerals, and rare earths), and how the US economy is in a very bad state.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7MnTzKOANg

Topics
0:00 Trump's visit to China
0:27 US trade war backfired
1:25 Trump joined by top CEOs
1:56 Elon Musk
2:20 Jensen Huang of Nvidia
2:47 Tim Cook of Apple
2:58 BlackRock and Blackstone
3:22 More CEOs with Trump
4:17 US CEOs meet Xi Jinping
5:31 USA is an oligarchy
6:23 China's massive market
6:57 Nvidia lost Chinese market
8:02 China's self-sufficiency drive
9:15 Manufacturing superpower
10:50 Tesla EVs made in Shanghai
11:25 US tariffs on Chinese EVs
12:21 China has the upper hand
13:00 US trade war
14:42 China-US trade
16:08 Rare earth elements
17:07 Critical minerals
18:18 New supply chain efforts
18:59 Pax Silica
19:41 Why US rhetoric changed
20:40 Iran war
22:51 US sanctions on China
24:20 Inflation in USA
25:41 Trump is very unpopular
26:33 K-shaped economy
27:25 Inequality
28:05 China exported deflation
29:31 US tariffs boost inflation
30:27 China in stronger position
31:07 Outro