What drives US politics and the new cold war on China? Monopolies from Geopolitical Economy Report

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What drives US politics and the new cold war on China? Monopolies

52 minutes Posted Aug 20, 2025 at 12:00 pm.

US government seeks political monopoly

Billionaire Peter Thiel defends monopolies

(CLIP) Peter Thiel: "competition is for losers"

Cold War Two against China

Uber's monopolistic business model

Corporate lobbyists & donors

Trump admin opposes antitrust cases

Money buys US politics

Trump backs billionaire Big Tech oligarchs

Trump green-lights white collar crime

Trump promotes bribery & corruption

USA wants to control global infrastructure

(CLIP) Trump threatens Panama Canal

BlackRock buys Panama Canal ports

(CLIP) Trump boasts of BlackRock deal

Trump helps BlackRock buy up ports

Second Cold War on China

US Big Tech targets TikTok

DeepSeek & Chinese AI competitors

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

US states ban DeepSeek

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

US AI companies lobby to ban competitors

Silicon Valley seeks "unipolar world"

Biden's chip export restrictions on China

USA seeks to stop China's innovation

Biden's tariffs on China

How imperialism works

Global value chain (division of labor)

USA wanted China to stay subordinate

VP JD Vance wants Global South on bottom

(CLIP) JD Vance on China & value chain

Industrial policy: Made in China 2025 plan

China enters commercial aircraft industry

US politicians lobby to ban China's Comac

How Boeing was destroyed by finance bros

How Jack Welch ran GE into the ground

Boeing attacked unions & skilled labor

Boeing CEO was Blackstone exec

Boeing prioritizes stock buybacks, not R&D

Private equity is "looting America"

Goal of Washington's new cold war

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One of the main goals of the US political and economic system is to protect corporate monopolies. Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations fear Chinese competitors, so the US government is trying to ban them. Political economist Ben Norton explains how imperialism works, and what drives Washington's Cold War Two against China.

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