Control of raw materials, finance, science and technology at global level is contested, but the Global North still controls information, communications, narrative and military and arms expenditureUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's President Xi Jinping hold a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing last month.
For Tooze this reveals “the contradiction that Washington is seeking to defend what it likes to call the rules-based international order with a series of unruly self-interested interventions. And it resorts to such measures because large parts of the US elite no longer believe in the optimistic historical vision that once framed those rules.” That is the “dark side” of the Biden administration’s US deep state, which is likely to carry over to any Trump administration.
Prominent among such critics is Vijay Prashad, the Indian historian, author, journalist, commentator and Marxist activist. His latest of many books, co-written with Noam Chomsky, is. He is chair of the Delhi-based Leftword books and runs the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, which analyses world politics from a Global South perspective.