What is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics? This is how China's economic model works
How does China's economic model work? Political economist Ben Norton explains the ideas behind Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, discussing China's socialist market economy, historical development, reform process, poverty reduction, industrial policy, and more.
VIDEO with charts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E89qUXTX-k
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0:00 Introduction
1:07 China has world's largest economy
3:01 China's economic development
3:54 Poverty reduction
6:56 Rising incomes
7:42 Life expectancy
8:57 Mortality rates
9:34 Reform and Opening Up
10:16 To get rich is glorious?
11:35 Deng Xiaoping's ideology
13:54 Primary stage of socialism
14:28 Chinese capitalists
15:54 Industrialization & urbanization
16:55 Birdcage economy (Chen Yun)
18:17 State ownership
19:40 State-owned enterprises (SOEs)
20:49 Grasp the large, let go of the small
22:22 Public property
23:16 SOE assets
24:14 Provincial & local governments
25:51 Golden shares in tech companies
26:54 Huawei, biggest worker-owned company
27:17 Rural cooperatives
29:09 Democracy in China?
31:40 Foreign investment in China
33:49 Global value chain
34:34 Foreign direct investment (FDI)
35:48 Industrial policy evolution
38:22 New quality productive forces
39:23 China's green energy revolution
40:24 World's manufacturing superpower
41:04 US deindustrialization & financialization
43:22 US bubble economy
44:37 China popped real estate bubble
46:50 Inequality & uneven development
48:31 Eras of the PRC
49:01 Common prosperity in New Era
49:34 Gini coefficient
50:26 Labor income vs capital income
51:48 Poverty alleviation
52:17 Wages of Chinese workers
52:44 Labor unions in China
55:19 USA funds anti-China labor groups
57:02 Marco Rubio takes over NED
57:32 Delivery workers
58:30 996 system is banned
59:23 Working hours in China
1:00:25 Imperialism & division of labor
1:03:51 AI & new cold war
1:04:45 Silicon Valley model: monopoly
1:05:43 Market competition in China
1:07:44 China opposes private monopolies
1:08:10 State planning
1:09:05 Cold War Two
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This is the US empire's new strategy for global dominance
The Donald Trump administration revealed the US empire's new plan for global dominance in the 2025 National Security Strategy. The goal is to impose hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, reviving the colonial Monroe Doctrine, to move supply chains out of Asia and bring manufacturing into Latin America via "nearshoring", in order to economically decouple from China and prepare for conflict in Cold War Two. Ben Norton analyzes the important document.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idkurWogst8
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0:00 Summary of US National Security Strategy
2:45 US economic dependency on China
5:25 USA loses China war games
6:45 Why Trump targets Latin America
7:41 Marco Rubio, war hawk
9:34 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China "threat"
10:17 Main goals of Trump's foreign policy
10:35 Improve Russia relations
11:30 Brief summary of US strategy
12:01 Western media misunderstands report
13:24 Whitewashing US imperialism
14:45 Obama's pivot to Asia
15:18 Asia is 1/2 of global economy
16:05 Hillary Clinton's "Russia reset"
16:34 Second Cold War aims at China
17:38 Main goals of US foreign policy
21:29 First target: Latin America
23:13 Second target: China
24:37 US dollar dominance
25:47 (CLIP) Trump threatens BRICS
26:16 Weaponizing technology
26:44 Natural resources in Americas
27:27 Hypocritical buzzwords
29:38 Culture war
32:00 Regions targeted by US empire
32:22 Colonial Monroe Doctrine
33:51 "Enlisting" US vassals
35:30 Nearshoring manufacturing
37:58 Militarizing Latin America
39:04 USA threatens countries
40:30 Natural resources
41:30 "US must be preeminent"
41:55 Cutting off Chinese technology
42:58 Goal: "an American-led world"
43:59 US government serves corporations
45:51 Strategy in "Indo-Pacific" region
46:21 Criticizing China's independence
47:17 Pacific: 21st century's "battleground"
47:52 Asia is half of world GDP (PPP)
49:08 Decline of Western hegemony
51:04 Supply chains
51:31 Economic war
52:21 India
55:12 Japan, South Korea, Australia
57:22 Dollar as global reserve currency
57:45 Taiwan
1:01:28 Europe
1:02:20 Russia
1:03:15 EU as captive US market
1:04:47 West Asia (Middle East)
1:05:18 Oil and natural gas
1:06:19 Israel
1:06:56 Africa
1:08:15 Conclusion
1:08:49 Outro
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Trump frees one of world's worst drug traffickers - while meddling in foreign elections
Donald Trump pardoned and freed from prison one of the world's worst drug dealers, the former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine and machine guns into the US. Ben Norton explains how the United States has meddled in Honduran elections, backed fraud, and supported a military coup.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKShReciYQ
Topics
0:00 Trump pardons notorious drug trafficker
2:16 US support for Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)
2:59 Trump threatens war on Venezuela
5:45 Journalist addresses Trump's drug hypocrisy
7:04 (CLIP) Trump blames Biden for drug arrest
7:36 USA backed Honduran narco-regime
8:01 Coup in Honduras in 2009
9:04 Stolen elections of 2013 & 2017
10:33 Trump meddles in Honduras' 2025 election
14:13 Libre Party alleges fraud
14:59 Result transmission system changes votes
15:26 President Xiomara Castro warned of coup plot
17:03 No official winner declared in election
19:16 Very suspicious results
21:15 US-backed coups and fraud
21:54 US coups in Latin America
22:30 Honduras resists US imperialism
24:54 Outro
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Palantir executives sell their shares as the stock crashes - but they smear critics as 'crazy'
The most overvalued stock on Earth may be that of Palantir, the corporate Big Brother that is getting huge contracts from the Trump administration and helps the US government wage war and carry out mass surveillance. Executives have been selling billions of dollars worth of shares, yet CEO Alex Karp attacks short-sellers like "Big Short" investor Michael Burry, claiming they're "crazy" for thinking the company is in a bubble. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_OuoAFp54Y
Topics
0:00 Financial bubbles
0:31 AI bubble
1:01 Palantir
1:35 Investors short Palantir stock
1:58 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp attacks short sellers
2:10 Targeting retail investors
2:23 (CLIP) CEO Alex Karp is "triggered"
3:13 Palantir executives sell shares
4:58 Financialized US economy
5:27 Trump admin contracts with Palantir
5:57 Mass surveillance
6:28 Preparing for war on China, Russia, Iran
6:54 Most revenue is from governments
7:32 Palantir stock price
8:20 Insane price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio
10:28 Is the bubble popping?
10:45 Michael Burry: "Big Short" investor
11:14 US housing bubble & financial crisis
12:11 Michael Burry shorts Palantir
12:31 (CLIP) Alex Karp: short sellers are "crazy"
12:40 CEO Alex Karp's emotional rant
13:01 (CLIP) Attacks "wokeness" & Zohran Mamdani
13:27 "Anti-woke" CEO is "triggered"
13:45 (CLIP) Alex Karp: why do they pick on us?
14:12 Delusions of grandeur
14:26 (CLIP) "Most important software company"
15:03 War on the short sellers
15:22 (CLIP) Alex Karp: "make them poorer"
15:41 Palantir executives sell their shares
16:28 Alex Karp sold $96 million
16:40 Shyam Sankar sold $37 million
17:32 Stephen Cohen sold $66 million
17:59 David Glazer sold $4 million
18:18 Ryan Taylor sold $4 million
18:33 Palantir execs keep selling shares
19:17 Alex Karp sold $1.9 billion in shares
20:04 Telling retail to invest in Palantir
20:49 (CLIP) "Experts vs retail"
21:27 Cynical exploitation
22:28 Outro
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AI bubble madness: Why Nvidia's market cap fell $600,000,000,000 in ONE DAY
The US economy depends on an unsustainable stock market bubble driven by AI companies that are almost all losing money. Nvidia seems healthier, but serious red flags explain why its stock price is extremely volatile, and why its market capitalization dropped $600 billion in just one day. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAZqYQBwWNY
Topics
0:00 AI bubble & Nvidia
2:40 Magnificent Seven (Mag7) Big Tech stocks
4:01 US GDP growth depends on AI capex
5:01 AI circular financing scheme
6:28 OpenAI is losing money, but owes $1.4 trillion
7:38 Nvidia profits rise in earnings report
9:27 US investor madness
12:04 China challenges Nvidia's chip monopoly
13:43 Crazy volatility in Nvidia stock
15:08 CEO Jensen Huang's private comments
17:11 $600 billion drop in one day
18:13 Four customers make up 61% of Nvidia revenue
20:25 IOUs: Nvidia's accounts receivable rises
21:43 GPU demand? Nvidia inventories surge
22:37 S&P 500 falls $2 trillion in 5 hours
24:12 US economy built on financial house of cards
26:13 Markets can remain irrational...
27:01 Dangers of a recession or depression
28:13 Outro