This is actually an extraordinary admission to make for a US Vice President https://t.co/VXRNYuVFdc
Vance explains that "the idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things."
But he laments that it didn't quite work out this way: as he explains it turns out that poor countries (mostly China) didn't want to just remain cheap labor forever and started moving up the value chain themselves. Which is why, according to him, globalization was a failure.
Meaning that the objective of globalization wasn't to reduce global inequalities but very much to maintain them, to institute a system of permanent economic hierarchy where rich countries would maintain their hold over the most profitable sectors while relegating poor countries to perpetual subordination in lower-value production.
This is basically all you need to know to explain 90% of U.S. foreign policy these past few years: colonial thinking is alive and well, and America's shift of strategy in recent years - away from the previous "Washington Consensus" of "free" markets towards a much more overt attempt to contain and restrict China's development - stems precisely from this mindset.
From semiconductor export controls to investment restrictions, these policies aren't about 'national security' in any genuine sense - they're about trying to preserve a global economic order where, simply put, poorer nations know their assigned place and stay there. At the very core, that's the "China threat": a China that stepped out of the economic lane assigned to it by the West.
It's deeply ironic when you think of it: a global game allegedly designed to "spread market principles" worldwide is being abandoned precisely because it worked too well. When China succeeded better than expected, the response wasn't to celebrate the validation of the game's effectiveness but to change its rules. Precisely because the real unspoken game - but now clearly stated by the U.S. Vice President - was to maintain global inequality, not eliminate it.
All in all, in case they hadn't yet gotten the memo, this sends a very clear message to the developing world: economic development will require challenging a U.S.-dominated economic order that views their advancement as a threat rather than a success. Which incidentally is why Vance's words might actually help accelerate the very redistribution of global economic power he laments, pushing more nations to recognize that genuine development requires strategic independence from a system intended to keep them in their place.
I unfollowed @elonmusk recently because I got really tired of his BS posts. Opened my feed and the first three posts are from him (+Starlink ad...). How is this possible? Twitter had its flaws, but X is waaaay worse.
@SancusGrpSteve@BrittPettibone Absolute nonsense. There is bombed cathedral in the middle of Berlin until today exactly because the idea is to display history and its consequences, not forget or downplay it. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
¡Tenemos un nuevo episodio de nuestro podcast Ciudades Que Inspiran 🏙️!
En este capítulo, @Aldo_FD conversa con Pipo Reiser sobre el impacto de la producción y de la gestión de los residuos en el cambio climático.
Escúchalo aquí 👇
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Capítulo #169 de @RevoluCircular en @X con @PipoReiser, Gerente General y Co-Fundador de @sinbaperu, conversando sobre inteligencia artificial y economía circular por un mundo sin basura.
✅ Presentado por: SQM #NitratosYodo
Capítulo #169 de @RevoluCircular con @PipoReiser, Gerente General y Co-Fundador de @sinbaperu, conversando sobre inteligencia artificial y economía circular por un mundo sin basura.
✅ Presentado por: SQM #NitratosYodo
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Capítulo #169 de @RevoluCircular con @PipoReiser, Gerente General y Co-Fundador de @sinbaperu, conversando sobre inteligencia artificial y economía circular por un mundo sin basura.
▶️ https://t.co/IjRcOI10LP
✅ Presentado por: SQM #NitratosYodo
Otárola, como abogado, salvó a Boluarte de los casos Reniec y Club Apurímac. Creó desde entonces en ella un relación de dependencia, que se trasladó luego al gobierno.
Es más fácil imaginar un gobierno de Otárola sin Dina; que uno de Dina sin Otárola.
And for those keeping track, global sea surface temperatures hit a new all-time modern record high yesterday, at 21.15°C.
Yep. It's all going swimmingly, as they say.
📷 El calor que sentimos en las ciudades, son los árboles que le faltan a la amazonía.
Con la modificatoria de la Ley Forestal, se dará carta libre a la deforestación de la amazonía de manera más intensa.
#DerogatoriaAhora#NoALaLeyAntiforestal#SinBosquesNoHayFuturo
90% de muestras de mariscos, cerdo, pollo, carne de res y tofu, contiene microplásticos.
Adulto promedio consume al menos 11.000 piezas de microplásticos cada año.
Se desconoce impacto sobre la salud.
Los plásticos se fragmentan en micro y nano partículas, nunca desaparecen…
@psecadae Muy interesantes gráficos. La parte que no me queda tan clara es la conclusión: ¿Por qué la reducción paulatina de la población global es un grave problema?
Espeluznantes datos publicó @el_pais sobre el conflicto en Gaza. 80% de las muertes corresponden a niños y mujeres.El peor mes de la guerra de Ucrania tuvo 38 muertes diarias. El peor de Irak,45.Gaza rompe récords: 238 fallecidos diarios.A la barbarie sólo le siguió más barbarie
Conversando con @PipoReiser y @sinbaperu sobre sueños, imposibles, liderazgo, cambio, transformación, inventar el futuro, sostenibilidad y por supuesto @CConscientePeru
Capitalismo consciente | Podcast Sinba https://t.co/6LgUcMwwGc vía @YouTube
Segregar es el PRIMER PASO del reciclaje ☝🏼♻️
¡Tú también puede empezar a segregar en tu casa, en tu trabajo o en la escuela! 🙌🏼
Conoce junto a @PipoReiser de @sinbaperu cómo empezar a hacerlo ⬇️
#ConectaConElFuturo#MásSostenible