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Geopolitical Economy Report   Donald Trump said his visit to China was a success, but he failed to pressure Beijing to make any significant concessions. Ben Norton fact-checks the claims of the White House, showing how Washington's trade war backfired, hard, on the US economy. 

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GVS Deep Dive   President Trump’s first trip to China since 2017 was supposed to reset relations between the world’s two largest powers. Instead, markets fell, trade breakthroughs never came, Taiwan tensions took center stage, and President Xi Jinping openly raised the “Thucydides Trap” — the idea that conflict often emerges when a rising power challenges an established one.   GVS Deep Dive examines why this summit may ultimately be remembered not for what was signed, but for what it revealed: a shifting balance of global power between the United States and China. |

The Jimmy Dore Show   Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson joins Jimmy Dore and explains that the US has no viable military path to victory in the Iran war, as the US lacks ground forces to invade Iran's million-man army, cannot assemble troops anywhere without them being devastated by Iranian missiles, and is running out of precision munitions like Tomahawks and JASSMs because rebuilding them requires rare earth minerals controlled by China.    He notes that Iran has built underground facilities capable of withstanding nuclear blasts and continues producing missiles, and that US air and naval options are limited since ships must stay 200 miles offshore to avoid being hit. Johnson further reveals that Russia and China are coordinating with Gulf states to "expel the United States from the Persian Gulf," and that Saudi Arabia shut down US airspace for Trump's "Project Freedom" after consulting with China and Pakistan. He concludes that Iran's five non-negotiab...

The Humanist Report   Chinese people had a field day on social media during Trump’s visit with President Xi Jinping. They shared AI-generated memes depicting Trump dancing on a cheeseburger and sounded off about how his stupidity is helping China. They even gave Trump a special nickname! This video looks at what Chinese citizens are saying about US big dumb wet president and explains why they’re right. 

Katie Halper   Green Party activist and political economy professor Ashok Kumar exposes how the “antisemitism” smear machine operates, and demonstrates exactly how to dismantle it on live TV.

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Geopolitical Economy Report   Donald Trump took a trip to China to meet President Xi Jinping. He was joined by the CEOs of a dozen top US corporations, including billionaires Elon Musk, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Tim Cook of Apple, Larry Fink of BlackRock, and Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone. Ben Norton explains how Beijing won the trade war that was started by Washington, how China has significant leverage (in manufacturing, supply chains, critical minerals, and rare earths), and how the US economy is in a very bad state.  

Breaking Points   Saagar is joined by Andy Browne to discuss Trump's oligarch backed trip to China.  

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