In Episode 351 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg critiques online and media reactions to the Jensen Huang scandal—which have been polarized between framing about a threat to US national security and Chinamaxxing propaganda about the benign nature of the Chinese state. As the US, China and Russia race to place nuclear reactors on the Moon, the leaders all three powers increasingly embrace fascist ideology (yes, really), and publicly schmooze with the same fascist tech oligarchs. Trump's Pax Silica AI development initiative threatens peasant and indigenous communities in the Philippines—as do Chinese corporate designs on the same mineral resources. And the looming Trump-Putin-Xi summit in Shenzhen portends a global carve-up of the planet in a fascist world order. With protests against data centers now spreading worldwide—a significant glimmer of hope—it is practically inevitable that they will come to China. International solidarity across infulence spheres—and repudiation of AI-boosting campism—holds the only hope of reisting the planet-wide consolidation of techno-fascism.

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Production by Chris Rywalt

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