Geopolitical Economy Report

We interviewed prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei. He discussed how China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy actually work; and how China sees democracy, the USA, and Donald Trump’s trade war. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/08/25/china-model-zhang-weiwei-interview/

Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to forcibly annex Greenland, even though polls show that 85% of Greenlanders oppose this, and only 6% support it. What does the US empire want from trying to colonize Greenland? One, to restrict China's access to the Arctic region, as climate change melts ice and opens up new trade routes. And two, to exploit the territory’s natural resources, especially critical minerals, which Washington wants to build a new supply chain that excludes China. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/18/greenland-join-us-trump-minerals-china/

The United States is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US exported seven times more weapons than China, and five times more than Russia, in the past five years. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/13/us-top-weapons-exports-china-russia/

Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a fanatical self-declared “crusader” who believes the USA is in a “holy war” against China, the left, and Islam. “Communist China will fall”, he vowed in his 2020 book “American Crusade”, promising, “Israel and America will form an even tighter bond, fighting the scourge of Islamism and international leftism”. Hegseth heaped praise upon the medieval Crusaders, and he argued that Western conservatives in the 21st century should continue the holy war they started a millennium ago. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/03/07/us-defense-secretary-hegseth-overthrow-china-crusade/

The Ukraine “war is about money”, said US Senator Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally. Noting Ukraine has trillions of dollars worth of critical minerals, he promised, “Donald Trump is going to do a deal to ... enrich ourselves with rare earth minerals”. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/11/27/ukraine-war-money-lindsey-graham-rare-earth-minerals/

Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei is promoting crypto scams and overseeing rapid deindustrialization. Manufacturing and construction are collapsing, while the financial sector, mining, and agriculture grow. The majority of Argentines live in poverty, but the stock market is booming. Meanwhile, Argentina's foreign policy is being made in Washington. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/02/28/javier-milei-argentina-economy-resource-colony/

Big Tech oligarchs in Silicon Valley fear Chinese AI competitors like DeepSeek. Billionaire Donald Trump backer Peter Thiel admits they want monopolies, arguing that “competition is for losers”. The CEO of a major AI company, Anthropic, said the US must maintain a “unipolar world”. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/02/03/us-ai-monopoly-unipolar-world-china/

Tech CEOs admit they want AI monopoly: US plans to block China's competition & 'steal' engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jniPAD2uoo

US President Donald Trump invited Silicon Valley Big Tech billionaire oligarchs to be at the center of his inauguration. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg symbolically sat with his cabinet picks. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google chief Sundar Pichai were there too. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/01/21/big-tech-billionaires-trump-inauguration/

BRICS added as a new partner Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, with the 6th-biggest population on Earth. BRICS+ now has 10 members and 9 partners, which make up 54.6% of the world population and 42.2% of global GDP (PPP). https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/01/19/brics-expands-population-nigeria-africa/

Vivek Ramaswamy, the billionaire failed presidential candidate whom Donald Trump appointed to lead DOGE, the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (alongside the world's richest oligarch, Elon Musk), is a Martin Shkreli-style Wall Street speculator accused of running pump-and-dump schemes. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/12/27/vivek-ramaswamy-wall-street-pump-and-dump/

BRICS keeps expanding, adding 9 partner countries in January 2025, after admitting 4 new members in 2024. It now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP). It’s an economic powerhouse, with top producers of key commodities like oil, gas, grains, meat, and minerals. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/12/25/brics-expands-9-partner-countries-population-economy/

US politicians and media outlets complain about China’s growing global influence, but offer no alternatives to help countries develop. Beijing is building a $3.5 billion mega-port in Peru, while Washington was only willing to sell Lima used trains built in the 1980s. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/11/21/china-builds-port-peru-us-old-trains/

The billionaire CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company, said it “really doesn’t matter” who wins the US presidential election, because either Donald Trump or Kamala Harris would be good for Wall Street. Both candidates are heavily funded by financial oligarchs and corporate monopolies. ($16 billion was spent on the 2024 elections, up from $8.5 billion in 2016.) Academic studies have empirically shown that the USA is not a democracy but rather an oligarchy, and average working people have zero influence on government policy. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/11/05/blackrock-doesnt-matter-us-election-trump-kamala-harris/

For the 32nd year, the entire world voted at the UN General Assembly to demand an end to the illegal US embargo against Cuba. The USA and Israel opposed the international community in a vote of 187 to 2. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/10/31/us-israel-world-un-vote-cuba-blockade/

The US dollar is losing its dominance, and foreign central banks are buying fewer Treasury securities, instead holding more gold in reserves, warns an elite US economist who was advisor to Obama. Many countries, especially BRICS, are seeking alternatives. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/10/23/economist-dollar-system-gold-brics/

BRICS plans to create a Cross-Border Payment Initiative that uses national currencies instead of the US dollar. As chair of BRICS in 2024, Russia has published a blueprint to transform the international monetary and financial system. Here we explain this important, historic proposal: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/10/19/brics-russia-multi-currency-system-us-dollar/

The United States and Israel are waging war across West Asia (the Middle East), bombing Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, and Yemen -- all at once. We analyzed the imperialist interests driving the violent chaos in the region: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO1UHJUCSCI

Israel's crimes, using US weapons, are more than just facilitated by the US: they are personally approved by US officials. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sits in meetings with top Israeli officials and gives them the green light to bomb aid trucks in Gaza. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/blinken-approved-policy-bomb-aid-trucks

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel, had defended Lebanon’s sovereignty. Under Nasrallah's leadership, Hezbollah helped to defeat ISIS & Al-Qaeda, protected Christians, and fought against Israeli colonialism & military occupation. https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/09/29/hezbollah-nasrallah-lebanon-israel-colonialism/