The US government has tried for years to recruit India for its new cold war on China, but Donald Trump's aggressive tariffs have backfired, encouraging New Delhi to improve its relations with Beijing, strengthening unity in BRICS. Political economist Ben Norton explains the complex history of the foreign relations of the US, India, China, and Russia.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BstijDvJT8Y

Topics
0:00 Donald Trump's contradictory policies
0:39 (CLIP) Trump threatens BRICS
1:05 Brazil pushes back
1:40 USA tries to use India against China
3:58 Goal of Trump's tariffs on India
5:34 (CLIP) EU chief on US trade deal
5:52 India buys Russian oil
7:46 Europe buys Russian oil - from India
9:10 India's trade surplus with USA
9:48 (CLIP) Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro
9:57 US trade with China
11:18 China restricts rare earth exports
12:03 US trade with India
13:35 India improves relations with China
15:41 Vietnam moves closer to China
16:35 BRICS expands to global majority
17:28 History of US-China relations
19:40 Kissinger's triangular diplomacy
20:47 Kissinger: divide Russia & China
21:21 (CLIP) Trump: divide Russia & China
21:37 Closest Russia-China relations ever
22:30 India-US-China relations
24:07 India: 3rd-largest economy on Earth
25:41 India & Non-Aligned Movement
27:03 India-USSR/Russia relations
28:39 India moves toward USA
29:50 Rise of Narendra Modi, BJP, RSS
31:22 US-India relations grow closer
32:59 Modi allies India with Israel
33:40 Modi: from banned to loved in USA
34:49 Trump's India policy
35:50 India's role in BRICS
37:59 India's foreign policy
38:52 India opposes dedollarization
42:21 BRICS' internal contradictions
45:05 Outro

Trump's tariffs backfire: India moves closer to China, strengthening BRICS unity

Tonight, Monday, August 18th, at 6 pm on The Brian Crombie Hour I interview ✅ Roman Sheremeta. 👉 ALL my 🎤 podcasts and 🎦 video casts can be accessed any time on my web site https://briancrombie.com which holds repository of all my shows. 📌 Roman Sheremeta, Ph.D., chair of Ukrainian-American House, founding rector of American University Kyiv, and professor at Case Western Reserve, criticizes the Alaska Trump-Putin Summit as a diplomatic failure with no ceasefire, sanctions, or agreements. He calls Trump naive and manipulated by Putin while highlighting Russia’s long strategy of aggression fueled by weak Western responses. He dismisses NATO expansion as a false pretext, noting Ukrainians shifted to 90% NATO support only after invasion. For peace, he proposes freezing current lines but insists Ukraine cannot surrender its territories. 

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Roman Sheremeta | Trump Putin Summit

Worthless Words Collide

Across the ocean lines are drawn,
Nations shout from dusk till dawn.
Echoes scatter, truth gets blurred,
Lives are lost to worthless words.

Worthless words collide like storms across the sky,
Breaking bonds that never had to die.
But kindness whispers louder, it will not be denied,
When worthless words collide.

In quiet homes the news still plays,
Children learn the cost it pays.
Yet neighbors share their bread and time,
Small antidotes that shift the tide.

Worthless words collide like storms across the sky,
Breaking bonds that never had to die.
But kindness whispers louder, it will not be denied,
When worthless words collide.

From the ashes rises something true,
A gentler voice that cuts right through.
History bends where mercy guides,
And hope survives when words collide.

Worthless words collide, but love can still remain,
Stronger than the fury, softer than the pain.
Whispers turn to anthems the world can’t push aside,
When worthless words collide.

Worthless Words Collide

In this episode, we delve into the environmental toll of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Comparing the impacts with our multiple climate disasters, we have witnessed how environmental destruction has dramatically altered our understanding of home, place, and belonging. 

To trace ways in which ecological grief is echoed and reckoned with across these different contexts, EcoJustice Radio shares the Thomas Mann House presentation of a conversation between Darya Tsymbalyuk (University of Chicago) and Ursula K. Heise (UCLA). 


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Tsymbalyuk’s recent book, ‘Ecocide in Ukraine’, highlights the devastating impact of the conflict on Ukraine's ecosystems and landscapes. From pollution and destruction of habitats to the emotional connections of locals to their environment, this episode sheds light on the often-overlooked ecological consequences of war.


Drawing connections between Ukrainian experiences, the scarred lands of the Pacific Palisades, and beyond, Tsymbalyuk and Heise discuss the loss of cherished places and species to examine the role of storytelling and the cultural imaginations in ways of inhabiting the damaged Earth.



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Ecocide in Ukraine Book: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=ecocide-in-ukraine-the-environmental-cost-of-russias-war--9781509562497 


Darya Tsymbalyuk [https://daryatsymbalyuk.com/] is an interdisciplinary scholar, and her practice includes writing and image-making. Most of Darya’s work lies at the intersection of environmental humanities and artistic research. She is a recipient of the Mary Zirin Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies (2023), and the author of multiple articles in environmental humanities. Her book “Ecocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia’s War” from Polity Press was published in 2025. Darya serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Committee on Environment, Geography, and Urbanization (CEGU), University of Chicago.



Ursula K. Heise [https://english.ucla.edu/people-faculty/heise-ursula-k/] holds the Marcia H. Howard Term Chair in Literary Studies in the Department of English and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA. She is co-founder and current Director of the Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS). Her books include, among others, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (University of Chicago Press, 2016).


Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He writes a column on PBS SoCal called High & Dry [https://www.pbssocal.org/people/high-dry]. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs.




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Ecocide: The Environmental Toll from the War in Ukraine

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.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EVwFJ7sM6c

Topics
0:00 US government seeks political monopoly
0:51 Billionaire Peter Thiel defends monopolies
2:53 (CLIP) Peter Thiel: "competition is for losers"
3:18 Cold War Two against China
4:49 Uber's monopolistic business model
9:18 Corporate lobbyists & donors
10:02 Trump admin opposes antitrust cases
12:12 Money buys US politics
13:42 Trump backs billionaire Big Tech oligarchs
15:45 Trump green-lights white collar crime
17:35 Trump promotes bribery & corruption
19:30 USA wants to control global infrastructure
20:03 (CLIP) Trump threatens Panama Canal
20:14 BlackRock buys Panama Canal ports
20:36 (CLIP) Trump boasts of BlackRock deal
21:00 Trump helps BlackRock buy up ports
21:58 Second Cold War on China
22:23 US Big Tech targets TikTok
24:14 DeepSeek & Chinese AI competitors
25:00 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
26:14 US states ban DeepSeek
26:57 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
27:29 US AI companies lobby to ban competitors
28:37 Silicon Valley seeks "unipolar world"
30:23 Biden's chip export restrictions on China
31:09 USA seeks to stop China's innovation
31:57 Biden's tariffs on China
33:55 How imperialism works
34:45 Global value chain (division of labor)
36:20 USA wanted China to stay subordinate
37:50 VP JD Vance wants Global South on bottom
38:45 (CLIP) JD Vance on China & value chain
39:30 Industrial policy: Made in China 2025 plan
41:32 China enters commercial aircraft industry
42:14 US politicians lobby to ban China's Comac
43:58 How Boeing was destroyed by finance bros
45:47 How Jack Welch ran GE into the ground
46:39 Boeing attacked unions & skilled labor
47:56 Boeing CEO was Blackstone exec
48:51 Boeing prioritizes stock buybacks, not R&D
50:17 Private equity is "looting America"
51:22 Goal of Washington's new cold war
52:11 Outro

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

How do China's government, political system, and socialist market economy actually work? How does China see democracy, the USA, and Donald Trump's trade war? Renowned Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei explains the China model in this interview with Ben Norton.

VIDEO with subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkVyYvWezI0

Topics
0:00 Highlights
1:30 Introduction to Zhang Weiwei
1:51 The China model
3:23 Civilization-state
4:13 Meritocracy
5:01 Socialist market economy
7:52 US capitalism vs Chinese socialism
9:36 Foreign investment in China
11:15 How China sees democracy
13:46 How laws are made in China
15:59 Economic planning
16:59 Debate with Francis Fukuyama
20:11 US trade war on China
23:36 Dedollarization of financial system
28:17 The multipolar future
29:36 Outro

How does China's system really work? This famous Chinese professor explains

🎧 Why You Should Care About Taiwan — Interview with Bill Emmott

Our daily news feeds are dominated by active conflicts—but what about the tensions simmering just below the surface, with global stakes just as high?

One of the most strategically significant, yet underreported flashpoints in the world is the Taiwan Strait—a 180km-wide body of international water separating Taiwan from mainland China. It's here that grey zone activity by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is escalating on a near-daily basis.

In this episode of Perspectives with Neilo, we explore:

The CCP’s claim on Taiwan—and why it’s historically weaker than Britain's claim on Ireland

Taiwan’s democratic identity and its people’s overwhelming rejection of CCP rule

The rise of grey zone warfare, military drills, and coercive tactics by China

The impact of U.S. strategic ambiguity and why the U.S. might be pulled into a war with China

Why Europe and the West must care about Taiwan’s future

🎙️ My guest is Bill Emmott—author of Deterrence, Diplomacy and the Risk of Conflict over Taiwan (2024), former editor-in-chief of The Economist, and one of the most respected voices in international affairs. We recorded this episode on the sidelines of the MacGill Summer School in July 2025.

We dive deep into the risks of conflict, the future of U.S.-China relations, and how the world can avoid sleepwalking into a war over Taiwan.

🔗 Resources:

Check out our blog at www.pwneilo.com for more information.

Credits:
Thumbnail map shows the locations of China’s military drills around Taiwan. The blue blocks represent war games held in 2022, the yellow and red blocks represent the “Joint Sword 2024” drills. Photo: Screen grab from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command’s Sina Weibo account courtesy of the Taipei Times. Link in blog.

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Why You Should Care About Taiwan - Interview with Bill Emmott

Another bonus summer episode of the pod, courtesy of Pierre’s travel misfortunes, but with no guest this week. Both Iain and Scott had been writing about AI so they devote the main segment to an extended critique of the technology, business case and general concept. Is AI over-hyped? Is it even useful? Does increasing reliance on it damage our brains? All these questions and more are addressed. They eventually get on to the many geopolitical tensions the AI arms races is causing before concluding by exploring investor concerns at Nokia.

AI, geopolitics and Nokia

The dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency has been gradually declining for years, but Donald Trump's policies could rapidly accelerate de-dollarization and the transition to a more multipolar international financial order, warn even mainstream American economists like Barry Eichengreen and Kenneth Rogoff. Political economist Ben Norton reviews the evidence.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utvD1JiIgCM

Our related article - "Trump advisor reveals tariff strategy: Force countries to pay tribute to maintain US empire": https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/04/10/trump-advisor-miran-tariff-pay-us-empire/

Topics
0:00 Dedollarization
0:43 Trump's policies accelerate dedollarization
3:50 Economist Barry Eichengreen
5:25 (CLIP) Barry Eichengreen on dedollarization
6:54 Gradually, and then suddenly
7:49 Erosion of dollar dominance
9:18 Decline of US economy 
11:36 Rise of China
12:50 Gold: why central banks keep buying it
15:42 Western sanctions
17:57 List of reasons driving dedollarization
18:42 Trump's tariffs & US trade deficit
20:10 Trump pressures Federal Reserve
22:58 Why Trump wants low interest rates
24:56 US Treasury market volatility
26:03 Fewer foreigners want US government debt
29:32 US economy: a financial house of cards
30:34 High corporate bond yields
32:26 Reasons driving dedollarization
32:56 Inflation
36:31 Trump fires BLS chief
37:40 Mar-a-Lago Accord plans
38:54 (CLIP) Trump economic advisor Stephen Miran
38:59 Plaza Accord redux 
40:30 Century bonds: de facto US debt default
44:46 Private investors de-dollarize too
45:25 Post-US dollar world
47:14 Economist Kenneth Rogoff
48:09 Trump's own Nixon shock
48:51 Multipolar financial world
50:46 Outro

US dollar dominance could end very fast, warn top economists. This is how

The US government has a long history of supporting corrupt, drug-dealing, right-wing oligarchs in Latin America. The Donald Trump administration is threatening to attack Venezuela, accusing leftist President Nicolás Maduro, without any evidence, of leading a cartel, while Marco Rubio defends Colombia's drug-trafficking former leader Álvaro Uribe. Ben Norton documents Washington's imperial hypocrisy.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCducQ8HHw

Topics
0:00 Hypocritical US meddling in Latin America
1:41 Colombia's ex President Álvaro Uribe
4:52 (CLIP) CIA director: "We lie, cheat, steal"
5:09 Drug cartels linked to Colombian leader
6:49 Paramilitaries linked to Colombian leader
9:16 False positives scandal
11:36 Plan Colombia
12:37 Left-wing President Gustavo Petro
14:55 US interventions in Latin America
15:39 Honduran dictator Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH)
16:48 US-backed coup in Honduras in 2009
18:27 US support for dictators
19:41 Drug trafficking in Honduras
22:36 US foreign policy in Latin America
22:59 CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras
24:09 Trump admin attacks Venezuela (again)
25:50 Outro

US gov't supports drug traffickers in Latin America, while threatening Venezuela

☘️Irish podcaster diving deep into news, politics, sport and tech.
🎙️Exploring the state of democracy in a rapidly changing world. 
📕Blog at 👉 www.pwneilo.com
#democracy, #Taiwan, #Ireland, #Podcast #geopolitics

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Our purpose is to amplify community voices, broaden the reach of grassroots-based movements, and inspire action. We investigate solutions for social, environmental, and climate issues with an eye to advance human health, steward wild landscapes, and solve the climate crisis across the USA and the world.

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