BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, is buying the ports on both sides of the Panama Canal, after Donald Trump threatened the Latin American country and forced it to pressure a Hong Kong company to sell its stake. Ben Norton discusses how the US government is trying to weaken China -- and strengthen Wall Street oligarchs.
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Check out our related video on Trump's attempt to divide Russia and China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJIymzuRGU
Topics
0:00 Goals of US foreign policy
1:08 BlackRock buys Panama Canal ports
2:08 (CLIP) Trump threatens Panama
2:32 BlackRock
3:26 US empire fears China
4:03 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"
4:46 CIA targets China
5:42 (CLIP) CIA director on China
6:34 CIA threats
6:50 Trump attacks China
7:06 (CLIP) Trump on Panama Canal
7:17 BlackRock takeover
7:43 Monroe Doctrine
8:40 Greenland
9:27 Marco Rubio
11:09 (CLIP) Rubio on US "backyard"
11:46 (CLIP) Rubio on "dangerous" China
12:24 (CLIP) Rubio on Taiwan
12:56 New cold war
13:39 Panama Canal geopolitics
14:59 BlackRock buys ports around world
15:54 Biden's infrastructure scheme
16:09 Belt and Road Initiative
16:33 Partnership for Global Infrastructure
17:53 BlackRock, Microsoft, and AI
18:06 Stargate Project with OpenAI
18:26 USA is an oligarchy
19:39 G7 summit starred BlackRock
20:16 (CLIP) CEO Larry Fink at G7 summit
21:11 BlackRock backs both US parties
22:15 Asset managers invest $128 trillion
23:06 Blackstone: Largest US landlord
24:33 USA: best "democracy" money can buy
25:13 Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman
26:45 Elon Musk: biggest US donor
27:51 Trump's trickle-down economics
31:37 Class war
33:24 Trump's Russia strategy
33:51 Outro
