In many of the countries surveyed, views of the U.S. have turned significantly more negative over the past year, while views of China have turned slightly more positive.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/15/views-of-the-us-have-worsened-while-opinions-of-china-have-improved-in-many-surveyed-countries/

#usa #china #geopolitics

🔴 The World is Shifting

US outspends everyone on war (74% of global military budget) while Global South rises. China now leads 57/64 key technologies—US only 7.

BRICS+ and South-South trade surge as nations ditch dollar dominance. From Burkina Faso’s anti-French coups to Latin America’s left wave, nations are shaking off western dominance.

https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-tricontinental-anniversary-global-south-sovereignty/

#BRICS#GlobalSouthRising #geopolitics

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the militarism of the declining Western hegemony and the rise of BRICS to accommodate multipolar realities.

https://youtu.be/VusbFzvhsf4

#geopolitics #brics

How is the World Silent about THIS

1 in 10 children screened at UN-run health clinics in Gaza is now malnourished Via the UNRWA

https://mobile.x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1945196668070044080

#antiPalestinianRacism#DismantleZionism
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran#Genocide
@palestine @lebanon @yemen #geopolitics
@irannachrichten#SettlerColonialism #usa #yemen
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli #canada
@blackmastodon#freePalestine#GazaGenocide#IsraelTerroristState#StopGenocide #palestina#StopAIPAC#IDFTerrorists

US demands fealty from Japan and Australia in event of war on China.

https://www.ft.com/content/41e272e4-5b25-47ee-807c-2b57c1316fe4

#geopolitics

#Gaza#Palestine#Syria #iran#Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @Yemen#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine#GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState#StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC#IDFTerrorists#DismantleZionism

🇮🇱 Israeli forces carried out another massacre at an aid center in southern Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Witnesses described Israeli tanks shooting toward the crowds with machine guns and soldiers sniping aid-seekers in the head.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/gazan-aid-seekers-sniped-in-the-head-at-ghf-distribution-center-witnesses-say/

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon#Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon

With West Bank annexation in the air, settlers revel in their impunity

https://www.972mag.com/settler-impunity-west-bank-annexation/

#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon#Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten#SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon#freePalestine#GazaGenocide#IsraelTerroristState#StopGenocide
#palestina#StopAIPAC#IDFTerrorists#DismantleZionism

Solarpower has won, not because it is alternative or woke, but because of economy. And it will keep winning with still improving panels, becoming thinner and easy to use everywhere, battery technology is also still improving.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
#solarpower #renewables #energy #geopolitics @geopolitics

In the latest sign that at least some consciences are starting to wake up in Europe, France’s National Assembly - the equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives - has produced a remarkable 153-page report (“rapport d’information”) that fundamentally challenges the European Union's current US-led confrontational approach toward China.

https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/frances-parliament-calls-europe-to

#usa #china #europe #geopolitics

China plans to set up what it hopes will be the first worldwide body to resolve international disputes through mediation.

A total of 85 nations from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe attended a launch ceremony on May 30 for the International Organization for MediationExternal link in Hong Kong, China’s Foreign Ministry saidExternal link. Over 30 nations signed a convention on the creation of the institution.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/chinas-project-to-mediate-global-disputes-underlines-divide-between-west-and-the-rest/89579375

#geopolitics

Tokyo says it is standing firm on trade after Trump announced a 25% tariff on all Japanese imports, with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowing to do what was best for his country rather than yield to pressure from Washington.

According to Toshimitsu Shigemura, a political science professor at Waseda University, Ishiba has been slow to realise that Japan’s “special relationship” with the US is no longer intact.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3317746/japan-refuses-yield-trumps-tariff-threat-we-will-not-be-taken-advantage

#usa #china #geopolitics

The US is bombing Iranian nuclear facilities, transferring AI tech to the Gulf states, and enabling Israeli surveillance and weapons tech.

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Laleh Khalili to discuss how the United States wields technology to enhance its power in the Middle East.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/284_how_the_us_weaponizes_tech_in_the_middle_east_w_laleh_khalili

#tech #israel#gaza #iran#palestine #uae#saudiarabia#unitedstates #politics #geopolitics #ai

BRICS+: empowering development.

It is time to lay firm, interconnected and enduring bricks that will advance development and shared prosperity for the Global South.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/brics-empowering-development/

#brics #economics #geopolitics