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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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