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

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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