US has a protagonist complex acting like the main character, doing whatever they want, then panicking when other countries push back. 😆
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/china-us-nvidia-chip-ban.html
China makes one-third of the world's manufactured goods. Chinese companies are increasingly expanding globally, establishing factories in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. This expansion helps them bypass tariffs and find new markets, much like Japan's in the 1980s. This is concerning for the U.S. and its vassals as it shifts local economic and political dynamics.
As the unipolar moment fades, Europe finds itself in a precarious position, caught between its rapidly diminishing autonomy and American strategic interests.
While the U.S. leverages its role as a security guarantor to secure its own economic position, European nations act as obedient vassals, lacking the courage and imagination to forge an independent path forward.
https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/europes-new-gilded-cage
China is leveraging swap lines, bond issuances, and geopolitical partnerships to create a multipolar financial order without full capital liberalization. The share of yuan in China’s trade has doubled since 2019, and offshore lending in yuan has surged. Beijing is building non-dollar infrastructure, like the CIPS payment system and digital yuan, to bypass Western networks and offer sanctions-proof alternatives.
https://www.economist.com/china/2025/09/10/china-is-ditching-the-dollar-fast
Due to U.S. tariffs, China’s trade surplus with Africa is skyrocketing, nearly matching last year's total. Chinese companies are redirecting exports of goods like solar panels and electric vehicles to Africa. This shift highlights China's resilience and growing influence in the region as the U.S. pulls back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/business/china-exports-africa.html
While China is strategically investing in key technologies and global markets, the U.S. under the Trump administration is weakening its own power through a shortsighted focus on tariffs, cutting research funding, and undermining international partnerships, a path that inevitably leads to a "Chinese century" with America left behind.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opinion/china-us-trade-tariffs.html
Geopolitical shifts, technological transformation and climate change are reshaping, not reversing, globalization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/11/world/where-is-globalization-going/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #geopolitics #tech #climatechange #globalization #globaleconomy
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Across #China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers…are trapped in a #digital cage, barred from leaving their province & sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital #surveillance apparatus. Most of this #technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the #UnitedStates.
#HumanRights#Uyghurs #police #government #dissent#PredictivePolicing#DigitalPoliceState#InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
Oh we're attacking Qatar now after trying to kill Greta Thunberg last night?
Terrorist State is Terrorist State.
Critically, American #surveillance #technologies allowed a brutal mass #detention campaign in the far west region of #Xinjiang — targeting, tracking & grading virtually the entire native #Uyghur population to forcibly assimilate & subdue them.
#US #tech companies did this by bringing “#PredictivePolicing” to #China — #technology that sucks in & analyzes data to prevent crime, protests, or terror attacks before they happen.
#HumanRights #government#DigitalPoliceState#InternationalLaw #law
Such systems mine a vast array of information — texts, calls, payments, flights, video, DNA swabs, mail deliveries, the internet, even water & power use — to unearth individuals deemed suspicious & predict their behavior. But they also allow Chinese #police to threaten friends & family & preemptively detain people for crimes they have not even committed.
#HumanRights#US #tech#China#Uyghurs #government #dissent#PredictivePolicing#DigitalPoliceState#InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics
Across #China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers…are trapped in a #digital cage, barred from leaving their province & sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital #surveillance apparatus. Most of this #technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the #UnitedStates.
#HumanRights#Uyghurs #police #government #dissent#PredictivePolicing#DigitalPoliceState#InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
A reset between China and India unfolded as Xi used the Tianjin summit to push a more assertive Global South agenda – including accelerating an SCO Development Bank – explicitly challenging single-power dominance and sanction-driven globalization. For India, which has long sought strategic autonomy, a functional India-China channel inside the SCO is not a capitulation; it is leverage.
Kallas is an utter embarrassment. The fact that somebody like that could end up in a top position is a clear illustration of the decline of the EU.
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The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon#Genocide #geopolitics
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The US appears to be withdrawing from Asia. The Pentagon's latest National Defense Strategy is de-prioritizing "deterring China" in favor of focusing on the US homeland and the Western hemisphere.
This is all the more striking given that the drafting of the National Defense Strategy was led by Eldridge Colby, who literally wrote a book on deterring China called "the strategy of denial."
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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon#Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen
#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon
#palestina#StopAIPAC#freePalestine#GazaGenocide#IsraelTerroristState#StopGenocide#IDFTerrorists#DismantleZionism
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon#Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon#freePalestine#GazaGenocide#IsraelTerroristState#StopGenocide
#palestina#StopAIPAC#IDFTerrorists#DismantleZionism
Most Americans have probably never heard of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. But 42% of the world’s population are now members of this non-western economic organization.
President Xi Jinping on Monday proposed the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), calling on countries to work in concert for a more just and equitable global governance system.
Xi highlighted five principles of the GGI -- adhering to sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating the people-centered approach, and focusing on taking real actions.