Trump helps BlackRock buy Panama Canal ports, to weaken China & strengthen Wall Street

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.

Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.co....m/2025/03/06/trump-b

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

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