Geopolitics

Here’s a roundup of interesting independent/alternative geopolitics content I came across recently. These are the kinds of stories and angles that tend to fly under the radar of mainstream coverage. “Empty Streets, Shrinking Cities: China’s Economic Reality” — Digging into China I stumbled on this [Digging into China video][1] and it really made me rethink what I thought I knew about China’s slowdown. The presenter walks through actual on-the-ground footage of empty malls, reduced mobility data, and ghost-city indicators, and connects them back to specific policy choices — housing tax experiments, local governments running out of land-sale revenue — rather than just writing it off as a cyclical dip. The argument is that China’s internal demand weakness is way more structural than mainstream pieces tend to acknowledge. ...

I spend a lot of time digging through independent media and alternative sources, and every so often I come across stories that make me wonder why nobody is talking about them. These are geopolitical shifts with real consequences — the kind of things that shape the world years before they show up in history books. Here are five that caught my attention this week. 1. The “Privatization” of Venezuela: A New US Strategy? While most mainstream outlets are busy covering election disputes in Venezuela, I stumbled on something far more interesting — and frankly more worrying. Ben Norton at the Geopolitical Economy Report has been tracking a quiet but aggressive economic strategy playing out in Latin America. ...