The economics of imperialism: Can the Global South resist Western exploitation? Can China help? from Geopolitical Economy Report

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The economics of imperialism: Can the Global South resist Western exploitation? Can China help?

49 minutes Posted Mar 25, 2024 at 1:59 pm.

Global inequality

World-systems analysis

Prebisch-Singer thesis

Dependency theory & commodity supercycles

Unequal exchange

Haiti & Honduras: Wage suppression in the periphery

New International Economic Order

China & the Asian Tigers

The Global South rebels

South Africa's President Ramaphosa on industrialization

Indonesia's economic development

(Neo)colonialism in Indonesia

Indonesia bans raw mineral exports

Protectionism (for the West, not for the rest)

China helps Indonesia industrialize

The myth of Chinese "imperialism"

India's economy vs. Indonesia's

China's South-South integration

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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 tried to reverse it.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PlAN5-Lk0hw

China is ‘world’s sole manufacturing superpower’, with 35% of global output: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production

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